Running your own DNS and pointing everything to it may help, and/or add entries for those hosts that netscape tries to resolve to /etc/hosts (never tried it but worth a shot). beyond that..what version of netscape are you running? can you print out the contents of ps auxw | grep netscape to show the full command line? mine is:
/usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator//communicator-smotif.real nate Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > That's exactly it! It doesn't happen until it realizes there's an > interface, though, so if my dialup link is down, it doesn't happen, but if I > introduce a network card into the mix, and gateway through that, then it > grabs that interface and holds it hostage until it gets a DNS lookup. > > I am on 2.2, have been for a while. I downloaded the tarball from Netscape, > though... 4.73 (with Java OFF, that is!) > > The problem is I only have the one phone line, and diald has always been > troublesome, and I need Netscape for things like my wife's mail, and reading > HTML, as well as configuring the crazy router itself! > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:27:54PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote: > > I haven't been following this thread, so i gotta ask exactly where does > > it hang? I have had many netscape hangs right after you click the first > > time and it tries to load the "start" page. What happens in most cases > > is netscape goes out to try to resolve 5 or 6 various domain > > names(*.netscape.com stuff mostly) to test to make sure your DNS is > > working, and it can hang there(sometimes for minutes). Even if your DNS > > is working it still may hang, i suggest runnign strace on it to see. > > > > strace netscape > > > > i have had this kind of lockup for a loooong time, but i don't remember > > it happening ever since i moved to debian 2.2, it uses a different > > versionof netscape(static motif ? i think), the generic one from > > netscape.com for linux(the versions ive tried) had this problem, but > > when using the static motif version(also when using netscape for solaris > > or IRIX) i never had the problem. > > > > nate > > > > Jonathan Markevich wrote: > > > > > > Nope, remember there's no startup page... the box is empty and the radio > > > button says Blank page. I also tried with localhost in there. > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:27:17PM -0700, Michael Smith wrote: > > > > Fire up netscape, go to edit>preferences. Select navigator. There > > > > should be an > > > > option "Browser Starts With:" Set that to "Blank Page". You might > > > > have to restart > > > > netscape for it to take effect, but you have to restart it anyway (you > > > > can go > > > > file>new>browserwindow) to see if it worked. > > -- > Jonathan Markevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.geocities.com/jmarkevich > == It's VIRUSES, not VIRII! See http://language.perl.com/misc/virus.html == > > I want the presidency so bad I can already taste the hors d'oeuvres. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
