From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 15:12:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09837 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09827 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:12:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA08898; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:41:46 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA13639; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:41:45 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980303094145.52540@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:41:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Dieter Koegel , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DNS (was: problem with netscape communicator) References: <34FB3218.1022F26A@eur.sas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <34FB3218.1022F26A@eur.sas.com>; from Dieter Koegel on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 11:26:32PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 March 1998 at 23:26:32 +0100, Dieter Koegel wrote: > Hi, > > actually I'm receiving mail and news at my home office with netscape > communicator 4.04 for FreeBSD. (2.2.5-RELEASE) AFAICS this weird > communicator tries to connect to my cache only nameserver which connects > me to my Ascend pipeline. This is really pain in the ass. > > Any suggestions to work around this problem are welcome Well, the first question would be to explain what the problem is. Sure, like many programs, Netscape performs DNS lookups. How else do you expect it to resolve URLs? What's the problem? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message