[H-GEN] Netscape (again)

[Benjamin Walding]

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Eric Hornsby wrote:

> Hi
> 
> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, John wrote:
> > 
> > This leads me to think the problem is with my setup. Does Netscape need
> > anything special in the way of nameservers, routing etc ?. I am running
> > named on my system (why ?, because i can !) but I have not done anything
> > special with routing.
> > I've attached the output of a netstat -r command as a file because I
> > can't figure out how to cut and paste from emacs to netscape mail yet.
> > 
> > Any ideas anyone ?
> > 
> have you tried it without your named running (and with another nameserver
> configured in /etc/resolv.conf) - that might narrow it down to whether
> it's your dns setup or not
> 
> also, i'm curious abot the first line in your routing table - what have
> you got that 255.255.255.255 entry routing through eth0 for ?  seems like
> an error to me :-)
> can't think why that would stuff your dns though....
> good luck
> Eric

I have noticed that netscape appears to have hung when it is initially
looking up the proxy servers.  This was solved by the fact that I now run
a junkbuster proxy chained through a local squid.  So the proxies are now
local and don't have lookup problems when I am offline.

Ben Walding

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