On 05/22/2013 09:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/05/2013 23:36, Dale wrote: >> Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> Dang, that thing was set to like forever. Default according to your >> link was supposed to be like 60 or something. Mine was set to over >> 250,000. O_O >> > > Hmmm. Mine is set the same - 30 days. > > I wonder how that could have happened when Mozilla's wiki recommends 60 > seconds as default
Looks like there's two variables with similar names: network.dnsCacheExpiration (60) Network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod (2592000) I only have the latter and the default seems fine according to: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2680535 (5th post and down, on second page) raf
