Hi iain,
RE: http://lists.alug.org.uk/main/2003-February/014341.html
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.
anyway.. if you can get into contact with me at: kiall@snoopie.org as i more than likely wont be following this list..
Thanks
Kiall Mac Innes
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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.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:47:08 -0000, Ian Douglas alug@k1ngph1cher.com wrote:
On Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:37 PM you wrote:
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.
If you have a proxy configured in Mozilla I don't think ever queries DNS as it assumes the proxy will know what to do. Have you tried Firefox vs. Mozilla Communicator?
Tim.
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