Re: netscape freezes w/ no net connection

["G" <infoflux hotmail com>]

I only have my ISP's DNS servers listed in my /etc/resolv.conf.  What I
think is happening is that it, failing to reach my ISP's DNS server is
trying to reach a root internic server and a netscape DNS server.  I thought
that setting the "MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True" would fix this, but apparantly
not.  Any other ideas?


Thanks,
Geoff

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Wilson and Sharon Farr <markandsharon csi com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: netscape freezes w/ no net connection


> Geoff
>
> I did have this problem at one stage when I had two machines on a LAN and
> one machine had a PPP link to my ISP. On one of the machines I set up a
DNS
> server. This all worked fine. The problem came about when I had the
machine
> with the DNS server switched off. The machine I was running Netscape on
was
> trying to contact the DNS server on the LAN and it takes a while before
this
> times out. While Netscape is waiting for a reply it simply hangs.
>
> Changing my resolv.conf to only point to the ISP DNS servers solved the
> problem.
> This is because when the link is down there is "No route to host" so the
DNS
> query fails instantly. Of course when the link is up there is no problem.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G <infoflux hotmail com>
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Date: Saturday, 4 December 1999 05:20
> Subject: netscape freezes w/ no net connection
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
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