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To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Subject: Re: dns resolve failure when ip address changes
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Randy Bush wrote:
> freebsd 4.6-rc of a few weeks ago

AFAIK, FreeBSD 4.6-RC1 was only released last week (May 16).

> moz 1.0rc1  Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020505 <developer build>
> 
> i switch between vpns (home, corp, ...) by removing my wireless card,
> changing wireless config, and reinserting the wireless card.  this
> causes a new dhcp cycle, which gets me an appropriate ip address on
> the vpn, a new set of dns server(s) for resolv.conf, etc.
> 
> when i do that, mozilla can no longer resolve names.  it is as if it
> has cached the old dns server ip address (which is no longer reachable).
> 
> if i exit moz and restart it, all is now normal.
> 
> clues?

Your problem seems related to Mozilla bugs 64857 and 117628:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64857
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117628

You might also be interested in Mozilla bug 140232:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140232

I'd upgrade to Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 3:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/

Shill



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