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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:11:59 -0800
From:      "Craig Burgess" <craig@CheetahUSA.net>
To:        "Andrew Gallatin" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: 4.4-RELEASE - XFree - netscape + gnome problems
Message-ID:  <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFEEIICFAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net>
In-Reply-To: <15371.63974.968069.162988@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:17 PM
To: Craig Burgess
Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE - XFree - netscape + gnome problems

Craig Burgess writes:
 > I did not locate a port of Netscape which would install. The tar file for
 > Tru64 from Compaq almost worked except that it would not resolve a URL.
 >
 > I had both 'netscape-wrapper' & 'netscape-remote' installed from long ago
 > but couldn't make the pieces play together.
 >
 > Then I found a package for Netscape-4.76 which **did** install and
required
 > netscape-wrapper & netscape-remote and it all seemed to go fine except --
it
 > still doesn't resolve a URL.
 >
 > In .cshrc I have 'setenv MOZILLA_HOME  /usr/local/lib/netscape'
 >
 > If this is enough information, what can I do to make it work?

4.77 installed from ports ages ago works just great.

Thanks and darn! (I think) I tried the ports for
bsdi-netscape47-communicator.us AND netscape47-communicator.us AND
linux-netscape47-communicator & all refused for one reason or another.

Can you define 'doesn't resolve a URL' -- you mean DNS doesn't work
for OSF/1 progs?

Exactly: DNS doesn't work in Netscape Communicator. Ping works in a terminal
window for a machine name and the browser works with an IP address.

What's in your /etc/resov.conf? (or /compat/osf/etc/resolv.conf, iff
it exists; it shoudn't exist)

/etc/resolv.conf :
domain mydomain.net
search
nameserver ns1.thenameserver.com
nameserver ns5.thenameserver.com

(resolf.conf contains genuine values) I am not running local DNS - only a
slave zone.

/compat/osf/etc/resolv.conf does **not** exist

And does /compat/osf/etc/svc.conf list hosts as:
hosts=local,bind,yp

Drew

YES, it does.

thanks,
craig


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