> > On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, dada wrote: > > > I instaled "bind" pakage to make an DNS server to my local area network > > (to learn how setup it). > > > > Before install it, Netscape works fine. But now,ie: when I open and web > > page in my hardisk,Netscape don't work fine (it wait too much time and I > > have to kill it,becouse it newer open that page). If I stop the deamon > > "named" and re-run Netscape,it works fine. > > Here is what my powerful divination talents tell me. > You only have problems when you are not connected to the Internet. > What happens is that Netscape reads the file, and for some reason tries to > resolve an address that it contains. So it queries the local name server, > i.e. your local bind server. But most probably your server does not have > the necessary information in its local file. Thus it tries to contact > another name server on the Internet. But since it's offline the UDP > messages are not answered and eventually time out. After trying many times > it will definitely give up. This is why netscape seems dead. > It may even happen that if you try to use the menus you > will have to kill you X session. At least that's what happened to me. > Solutions: > - Stop using bind. > - Change the named.boot file depending on whether you are connected > or not. When not connected don't use forwarders. > - Set up dial on demand AND arrange for the DNS resolution packets to > trigger the connection. > > > -- > Francois Gouget > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mygale.org/~fgouget/ >
You might also try telling Netscape not to load a default page on startup. That seemed to help me. ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
