Re: netscape wont work

[Steve Cox <stevec canaries co uk>]

I had this problem months ago - tracked it down to Netscape doing it's own
internal name resolution for news-servers - ignoring the nameservers
configured on the local box (!)

Very odd, but confirmed by a couple of other people. I didn't try
the MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS export but one way to get around it (provided
you dont use netscape as a news reader - PAN is good now)  is to set the
newsgroup directory to "/dev/null" in the newsgroups servers preferences
section. odd but it worked for a few of us.

Steve



On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Dennis J Perkins wrote:

> Try adding this line to your .bashrc file:  MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True
> 
> This should fix your problem without adding DNS to your computer.
> 
> Warren Young wrote:
> 
> > Frank Hale wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are you connected to the internet when you try to
> > > > start netscape?
> > >
> > > I can run netscape while not connected and it works
> > > just fine. Pick any version they all work.
> >
> > Netscape freezes because, on startup, it does a blocking domain name
> > lookup for home6.netscape.com (?) and/or your mail server.  So,
> > depending on how you set up your DNS system, you can indeed cause
> > Netscape to freeze when you're offline.  I wish I knew how to set the
> > system up so I can have offline DNS (for my home LAN) and still keep
> > Netscape from freezing.  Maybe someone out there can enlighten me.
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