[3538] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Grant R. Guenther)
Sat Jun 29 12:34:16 1996
From: "Grant R. Guenther" <grant@gear.torque.net>
To: woju@keep.in-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:25:53 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0uZwBa-000DDNC@keep.in-berlin.de> from "Wolfgang Jung" at Jun 29, 96 11:19:26 am
> #I can ping servers outside my machine using domain name.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> #But, in netscape, I CAN NOT REACH ANY URL using the URL name. However,
> #it works if I use the IP address instead of the URL name. Can anybody please
> #tell me what is the problem?
>
> Sure you should have read the HOWTOS, then you would know, that you have
> to spcify a nameserver (You will get the IP Number for the nameserver from
> your ISP !
Perhaps *you* should read the original posting. It sure looks to me like
he has his resolver set up ... For what it is worth, I've observed
similar problems with netscape 2 - although repeating a request usually
works - there's something wrong in its interface to the resolver.
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