RedHat: FIX FOR DNS LOOKUP HANG ON BROWSER STARTUP?

PolyGlot, Inc.

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Feb 19, 2002, 3:53:31 PM2/19/02

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I know this must have been asked before, but here goes again...
On my RedHat6.1 (or.2) system, Netscape 4.79 (and 4.72)
always hang on startup trying to do a DNS lookup (apparently)
and after an eternity carry on as tho nothing was wrong.
HOW TO FIX THIS?
Interestingly, my old Netscape 4.7 doesnt hang on startup!?

David Efflandt

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Mar 2, 2002, 10:46:20 AM3/2/02

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You might look around on Netscape's site to see if you can find where it
says how deactivate its DNS Helper. But it seems the last time I tried to
find that, I could not. One solution may be to run your own caching
nameserver.

BTW does anyone know how to deactivate the URL Search thing in Netscape 6?
It is distracting when entering a URL, and when using the backspace, bogs
things down enough that the backspace runs back past where you want it to
stop when released. I did disable everything I could related to Smart
Browsing and Whats Related, but the only choice for Search is picking
another search engine, with no way to simply deactivate it.

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Miles O'Neal

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Mar 2, 2002, 11:01:49 PM3/2/02

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David Efflandt <effl...@xnet.com> wrote:
|On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, PolyGlot, Inc. <nets...@polyglotinc.com> wrote:
|> I know this must have been asked before, but here goes again...
|> On my RedHat6.1 (or.2) system, Netscape 4.79 (and 4.72)
|> always hang on startup trying to do a DNS lookup (apparently)
|> and after an eternity carry on as tho nothing was wrong.
|> HOW TO FIX THIS?
|> Interestingly, my old Netscape 4.7 doesnt hang on startup!?
|
|You might look around on Netscape's site to see if you can find where it
|says how deactivate its DNS Helper. But it seems the last time I tried to
|find that, I could not. One solution may be to run your own caching
|nameserver.

Sometimes the hang is annoyingly
slow for me, other times it's barely
noticeable. When it's bad, what
usually works is to hit stop, then
try again. Sometimes this results
in a complaint that the host or domain
name is unknown, in which case trying
again usually works right away.

Annoyiong, but beats waiting forever.

Jeff Wieland

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Mar 5, 2002, 5:29:31 PM3/5/02

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In article <Nehg8.372$_9.366921@news20> m...@rru.com (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>David Efflandt <effl...@xnet.com> wrote:
>|On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, PolyGlot, Inc. <nets...@polyglotinc.com> wrote:
>|> I know this must have been asked before, but here goes again...
>|> On my RedHat6.1 (or.2) system, Netscape 4.79 (and 4.72)
>|> always hang on startup trying to do a DNS lookup (apparently)
>|> and after an eternity carry on as tho nothing was wrong.
>|> HOW TO FIX THIS?
>|> Interestingly, my old Netscape 4.7 doesnt hang on startup!?
>|
>|You might look around on Netscape's site to see if you can find where it
>|says how deactivate its DNS Helper. But it seems the last time I tried to
>|find that, I could not. One solution may be to run your own caching
>|nameserver.

Set the shell variable, MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS.
Use something like (for most non-csh shells):

MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True
export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS

But I don't think that it will help. When netscape starts, it looks
up the addresses of one or hosts at Netscape -- it sounds like
something is awry with your DNS configuration.

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Jeff Wieland