Re: netscape 4.7-3
I've had similar behavior with netscape. Killing the portmapper seemed
to allow the DNS lookups to go through. I don't understand enough to give
a reason why, though. I chalked it up to a weird combination of DU libs
and improper configurations that I never investigated since I wasn't using
NFS or NIS.
Ryan
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Tom Vier wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 04:28:43PM -0800, Ron Farrer wrote:
> > Tom Vier (thomassr@erols.com) wrote:
> >
> > > yeah, it's fine, so is nsswitch.conf. oh well, i'm going to build kde and use
> > > konqueror. it is strange that it's only DNS that's broken, though.
> >
> > That's odd. I do remember seeing this once before, but I don't
> > remember what the problem was. The only thing that sounds close is the
> > one time I had a bad entry in 'resolve.conf' - all other apps worked
> > fine but NS (it was just one bad entry at the bottom). Once I removed
> > all but the two good DNS servers from there it started working again.
>
> nslookup works fine with each server, and i tried removing all but one.
> still no luck.
>
> > Good luck with KDE.. QT2 still doesn't build on Alpha. It appears to
> > be gcc's fault. :-(
>
> thanks for the warning, you just saved me many hours of downloading kde
> source. at least i can run it on my ppc box and display it to this one.
>
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