From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 3 8:50:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 592DB4128 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 08:50:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat6.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.198]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA12563; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:50:16 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA15794; Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:05:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 18:05:01 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: William Woods Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape issues.... Message-ID: <20000203180501.D92577@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from freebsd@cybcon.com on Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:58:09AM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 06:58:09AM -0800, William Woods wrote: > > Not really a freebsd specific question but.... > > I have a couple manuals on my system in .htm format that I use often, but every > time I execute a small script I have written: > > netscape /usr/local/books/unixbookshelf/index.htm > > netscape tries to dial a connection. I have ppp set to dial on demand, but I am > wondering is there any way to have netscape realise that these are LOCAL files > and no network connection is required? If you have setup up a mail or a news server in Netscape's preferences it will try to resolve their IP address during startup. I'm sure that delayed DNS lookup would be better, but this ain't the only thing that is bad about Netscape. When I realized this, I gave up on this one too and used lynx thereafter for quick n' dirty reading of .html :) You can use a tcpdump on your ppp interface to see what packets are going through when Netscape starts. You'll see those A? requests to port 53 of some name server going through and triggering a dial from your running ppp. -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message