DNS lookup with Netscape 4.5, 4.51 and 4.6

[Stephan Engelke <engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi everyone,

on my slink system I have noticed the following behavoiur:

Whenever I start Netscape (version >= 4.51) it tries perform a DNS lookup
of my local hostname (terra.local.universe.de).  After approx. 5 minutes 
the page finally loads.

I am using the glibc2/unsupported versions of Netscape.
There is an apache webserver running on port 80, which is supposed to
serve the starting page. The system is its own DNS server with its own 
database. Neiter lynx nor nslookup run into this timeout.
The hostname is properly resolved.
The syslog tells me, that named tries to contact one of its forwarders;
these forwarders are machines my ISP provides, therefore I get the
errormessage "network unreachable" if I am not connected. When I am 
connected to my ISP Netscape 4.51+ starts fine.

Netscape 4.5 does not have this problem!  I have not changed 
the user specific configuration files.  All "smart" functions are disabled.

Has anyone notices this behaviour, too?
If so, what might cause the problem - what could I do to solve it?

Thanks in advance.

So long -- Stephan
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Stephan Engelke                                    engelke@math.uni-hamburg.de
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