web connection with firefox in ubuntu 7.10

[Chris Gehlker]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 11:01:55AM -0700, Cary Mabe wrote:
>> Hi pluggers!  I just updated from Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10, and am  
>> having a
>> problem getting firefox to connect to the internet.  I have tested  
>> and
>> see that my computer can still send pings, and it can still update  
>> the
>> listing for the apt-get and the graphical update system, so the
>> problem resides somewhere in firefox.  Anybody have any ideas?
>> Thanks mucho in advance.  BTW, I know installfest will be a smash
>> tonight, but I'll be at work, so hopefully next time I'll be there.
>
> One problem I've had repeatedly with firefox is that it can be very
> picky about DNS. Using Qwest DNS made firefox almost unusable, and  
> same
> for using the builtin DNS in the ActionTec dsl modem. Running a local,
> caching-only name server made everything work perfectly.
>
> When I was having the problem they were just like what you describe.
> Ping and other network things were fine, and firefox was not.
>
> Maybe this is your problem, maybe not.

I'm having no problems with Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10. I'm using OpenDNS
<http://www.opendns.com/>