On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue. When I leave > Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the > internet. If I open Firefox, it works fine. I can ping in a Konsole > too. In Seamonkey tho, not even a simple page like google will work. > If I close Seamonkey and then restart it, it works fine. I don't have > to log out of KDE or anything either. Just restart Seamonkey and it > works for a few more hours. Also, it affects both browser and email. >
Try visiting an IP address instead of a hostname. There's an internal DNS cache; if that's what's stopped working you can turn it off with http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dnsCacheExpiration in about:config. And hopefully that avoids the lookup entirely.