* Hal Burgiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 05:19:26AM -0500, Arni Raghu wrote:
> > When I am not dialed out netscape does not start immediately...it
> > takes hell of a long time to start...But the same when I am dialed
> > out it starts up in a second...
> >
> > Why this wierd behavior with netscape..??
> >
>
> Try this from the README in /usr/doc:
>
> "Asynchronous DNS host lookup
>
> Netscape Communicator 4.5 has the ability to do asynchronous DNS host
> lookups. This feature is on by default and nothing needs to be done to
> configure it. If you experience DNS lookup problems, you can turn this
> feature off by setting the environment variable MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS to True:
>
> csh, tcsh:
> setenv MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS True
>
> sh, bash, ksh:
> MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True
> export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS"
>
>
> Maybe this will help.
I doubt this will help. If you disable asyncronous dns lookup,
netscape will just do syncronous lookup instead. Even worse ;)
Tom.
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