netscape freezes w/ no net connection

["G" <infoflux hotmail com>]

Hello,

I have run a number of different versions of netscape and have always had
this problem.  When my 'net connection is down, when netscape is started, it
will freeze for a while, before presenting an error message about not being
able to reach some DNS servers (duh). After that, it works fine.  I even did
a
"MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True
   export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS"
but this doesn't fix things.  Anyone else know how to fix this?

Thanks,
Geoff