Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 13:36:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Dieter Koegel <eurdrk@eur.sas.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with netscape communicator Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980303133524.20978L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34FB3218.1022F26A@eur.sas.com>
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Dieter Koegel wrote: > actually I'm receiving mail and news at my home office with netscape > communicator 4.04 for FreeBSD. (2.2.5-RELEASE) AFAICS this weird > communicator tries to connect to my cache only nameserver which connects > me to my Ascend pipeline. This is really pain in the ass. It's trying to do a nameserver lookup and your caching only nameserver doesn't have the name. It's acting normally. > > Any suggestions to work around this problem are welcome Put the IPs of commonly used hosts in /etc/hosts and change /etc/host.conf to `hosts' before 'bind'. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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