From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 3 03:27:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA25121 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 03:27:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lamb.sas.com (root@lamb.sas.com [192.35.83.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA25111 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 03:27:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eurdrk@eur.sas.com) Received: from mozart (markham.southpeak.com [192.58.185.8]) by lamb.sas.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id GAA05671; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 06:27:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from auerhahn.eur.sas.com by mozart (5.65c/SAS/Domains/5-6-90) id AA08031; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 06:27:18 -0500 Received: from eur.sas.com by auerhahn.eur.sas.com (8.7.1/SAS/Domains/02-12-98) id MAA00195; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 12:27:11 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <34FBE90F.AF92C72E@eur.sas.com> Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 12:27:11 +0100 From: Dieter Koegel Reply-To: eurdrk@eur.sas.com Organization: SAS Institute European HQ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/712) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS (was: problem with netscape communicator) References: <34FB3218.1022F26A@eur.sas.com> <19980303094145.52540@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > 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? > The problem is that communicator does lookups when starting, when writing a new mail and also when it is idle. I had no lookups when communicator isn't running. Funny, isn't it? Cheers Dieter -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Dieter Koegel Email: eurdrk@eur.sas.com Unix Systemadministrator Systems and Operations http://www.eur.sas.com/~eurdrk SAS Institute Tel: (49) 6221/416-117 European Headquarters Fax: (49) 6221/474850 Neuenheimer Landstrasse 28-30 P.O.-BOX 105340 D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany ___________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message