Firefox Loses DNS in F10

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 1 16:11:06 UTC 2008


Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:45 -0500, Richard Heck wrote:
>   
>> I've been seeing a weird problem on F10 in Firefox on a fresh install 
>> onto my daughter's machine. Frequently, after using Firefox for a bit, 
>> it seems to lose its ability to do DNS lookups. Every URL reports not 
>> found. Shutting it down and reopening solves the problem. So it's just 
>> Firefox, not the whole system. Any ideas?
>>     
>
> Actually I've seen that too, but since running my own network, thought
> it was something on my end.  Wondering if it's something else now that
> you are also experiencing it?
>
>   
I would file a bug on it.
I have FC10 Firefox-3 and it does the same thing, It can't find server 
to Linuxtoday.com and lxer.com,
but it will find yahoo.com, redhat.com etc.
If I get on my FC8 box and Firefox, it has no problems of finding those 
same Servers.




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