Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 15:01:35 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> To: eurdrk@eur.sas.com Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS (was: problem with netscape communicator) Message-ID: <34FC8BCF.EF6443D2@san.rr.com> References: <34FB3218.1022F26A@eur.sas.com> <19980303094145.52540@freebie.lemis.com> <34FBE90F.AF92C72E@eur.sas.com>
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Dieter Koegel wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2 March 1998 at 23:26:32 +0100, Dieter Koegel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > Any suggestions to work around this problem are welcome > > > > Well, the first question would be to explain what the problem is. > > Sure, like many programs, Netscape performs DNS lookups. How else do > > you expect it to resolve URLs? What's the problem? > > > The problem is that communicator does lookups when starting, when > writing a new mail and also when it is idle. I had no lookups when > communicator isn't running. Funny, isn't it? If you're not already, try the MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS option. Info is in the readme. Hope this helps, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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