Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 22:31:36 -0400 From: Dragoncrest <dragoncrest@voyager.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems resolving sites in browsers under KDE Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20040508223029.00a23630@pop.voyager.net> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20040507095606.01da5ec0@pop.voyager.net>
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Still looking for answers. If anyone has any ideas, I would be
very grateful to hear them. Thanks.
At 10:09 AM 5/7/04 -0400, Dragoncrest wrote:
> Just recently I've started having a DNS issue of sorts on two of
> my workstations running KDE 3.2 on Freebsd 4.9 and using both Mozilla and
> Firebird for browsers. What happens is I'll be surfing around and
> suddenly I'll hit something and I can't go forward, I can't go back, I
> can't go anywhere. It just sits there saying "resolving host
> whatever.com" and does this for like 30 seconds, then finally it resolves
> it and continues on. Then it'll gag again on something else in the page
> as it's loading and do that all over again. Then I might be fine for
> another 5-15 minutes before it does it again. When this happens I can
> jump into a console either via KDE or control-alt-f1 and I can surf all I
> want to using lynx, I can resolve sites, I can telnet, or do whatever I
> want. But my browsers just sit there and look stupid. Is there
> something I'm missing? What could be causing this. It's been occuring
> periodically before this, but it's really gotten bad now. So far all I
> can tell that's affected is Mozilla and Firebird. Any ideas guys?
>
> Oh, yes. I did test this in Konqueror and it's doing the same
> thing in there too. So the issue is not unique to just Mozilla and
> Firebird. But from what I can see, not much else is affected on the
> network level. Is there ways I can test things in KDE that might give me
> some more information as to what's causing this? Or is there some
> network setting somewhere that I should look at? Maybe something that
> might affect my ability to surf smoothly? I know it's not my internet
> connection because I can surf just fine in my windows box that sits right
> next ot it on the same net connection. Any input would be welcome.
>
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