Hi Kiall,
On Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:37 PM you wrote:
im contacting you as i seem to have contracted that mozilla dns disease you got in feb 2003 (yes it seems mozilla havent sorted out the problem yet) i was hoping you would still remember how you went about fixing it?
Ive tryed everything from removing the .mozilla directory trying as a completly new user, trying as root, rebooting but nothing helps..
tcpdump -n port 53 shows that Mozilla is not actually even sending a DNS request, similar to you.
Unfortunately I couldn't fix it. In the end I got so frustrated I fell back to the M$ Windblows cure-all of reformatting my Linux partition and reinstalling Linux. Thankfully I have never had any problems since. I seem to remember though that I was having a lot of problems with NTL's WEB Cache at the time so assumed it something to do with that. This was probably a red herring though because, like your Mozilla, mine wasn't even sending any DNS lookup requests out to the network anyway.
Sorry I can't be much help.
Ian.