P.S. - Netscape Quirk

[Michael Vanecek]

I assumed Netscape was trying to resolve something as it does this
sometime when pulling up a site with lots of junk on it that takes a
while to put together. I got Ethereal and discovered that Netscape was
trying to resolve the newsgroup servers I use periodically - 3dfx and
Mesa. It would keep trying until my connection was made and it could
find them. That seems kinda stupid to me - it doesn't try to resolve my
mailserver - so why try to resolve the newsserver? I deleted them and
everything is hunky-dorry. I'll just grab a third-party newsbrowser
until Netscape pulls it's head out...

Thanks,
Mike

Rod Roark wrote:
> 
> As I recall this happens because NS wants to resolve 2-3 hostnames when
> it starts up.  You can packet sniff it to find out what they are and
> then put them in /etc/hosts -- or better, set up a local cacheing
> nameserver.  Look for DNSCache on freshmeat.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Rod
>    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Oh yeah - this problem occures regardless on whether I have Netscape set
> > to display a blank page or a site...
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________________
> > This has been a problem that has plagued me over several versions of RH
> > - I access the internet through a lan-modem router using Netscape, and
> > until the router actually makes a connection, Netscape is totally locked
> > up. Once it makes the connection then everything is fine. This is
> > usually not a big deal unless I'm doing web-work from my workstation and
> > don't need the internet just yet. Just to test a web page I created I
> > have to sit and wait for the connection to be made before Netscape will
> > display it. Afterwards I can usually disconnect safely though once and a
> > while Netscape locks up and I need to reconnect. Is this just one of
> > those quirks with Netscape that we've learned to live with, or is there
> > something I can do on my LAN settings to eliminate this problem?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > RH6.2
> > Netscape 4.72
> 
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