Re: Netscape and spurious net access

[Nate Amsden <aphro@aphroland.org>]

Carel Fellinger wrote:
> 
> Hai,
> 
> thanks to xnetload I noticed that netscape has a lot of net activity
> on startup and on exit. Even when used to view a local html file
> (netscape localfile.html) a lot of net activity is going on. I wonder
> what he is doing. Anyone in the know?

i suggest loading something like iptraf or netwatch to see whats going
on. in many versions of netscape, whenever it loads it tries to resolve
a bunch of different netscape domain names to see if your DNS is
working, this is the only thing i can think of that it's doin.

nate

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