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Re: Netscape and spurious net access



On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:56:29PM -0700, Nate Amsden wrote:
> Carel Fellinger wrote:
> > 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
...
> 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.

and right you were, it's mere dns lookups.

-- 
groetjes, carel



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