[3539] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffery S. Coy Jr.)
Sat Jun 29 14:57:02 1996
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 11:48:28 -0700 (MST)
From: "Jeffery S. Coy Jr." <jcoy@red.cscwc.pima.edu>
To: "Grant R. Guenther" <grant@gear.torque.net>
cc: Wolfgang Jung <woju@keep.in-berlin.de>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606291625.MAA00299@gear.torque.net>
On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Grant R. Guenther wrote:
> > #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.
>
i noticed this as well.
i seem to remember some discussion about this, it was a bug in netscape
in that its resolver timed out too soon on slow links such as slip and
ppp (doesn't everyone have ethernet?).
this has been masked by recent versions of libc. so one solution is to
upgrade the aout libc to version 4.7.6. the actual fix was made in
v4.7.5, v4.7.6 was a bugfix release for flock warning messages.
i would suggest moving to netscape v3.0 gold, but i have seen some of the
same problems with it. doing an "nslookup" to get the info into the
cache seems to let netscape find the entry, but netscape is still timing
out too soon on slow links for me. YMMV.
jeff
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Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors.
drivers for most hardware. because one terminal or process is never enough.
forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a gnu generation.
