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 > > Maybe that will fix this thing. I seem to recall it would have "looking > up ****" at the bottom. The **** is whatever website I was trying to > get to. > > I'm not sure this is it but thanks much!! Should know pretty soon. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
Well, so far so good. It sat here all night and most of yesterday and it still works. So, this setting fixed something. Thanks much. Looks like I can stop closing and restarting now. I was beginning to think Linux was turning into windoze. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
