[3559] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dilip Choudhury)
Mon Jul 1 19:48:57 1996
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 13:32:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dilip Choudhury <dilip@carfax.ims.advantis.com>
To: "Jeffery S. Coy Jr." <jcoy@red.cscwc.pima.edu>
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.960629113840.25605D-100000@red.cscwc.pima.edu>
Thanks a lot for your valuable info Jeff.
Can anyone tell me where to get the gnu libc version 4.7.6 from? I looked
at both prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu and sunsite.unc.edu/pub/gnu/libraries and
they have a very old version.
Regards,
Dilip.
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On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Jeffery S. Coy Jr. wrote:
> 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
> ---
> 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.
>
>
>
>
