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Re: how to force galeon to use dns name resolving???



On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:49:17AM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 01:48:41PM +0000, Rupert wrote:
> > With my dyndns account the DNS records live for 60 seconds on the
> > world-accessible DNS servers. This seems to be the case for the machine
> > bboett.dyndns.org (see dig output below). So you have to wait for up to
> > 60 seconds before the new address will be accessible through the dyndns
> > name.
> uhm, i am well aware of that, and i have no problems whatsoever with
> it... the only to have problems with this is this "'$'$$&/'«»'«»
> galeon.... 
> 
> all the other programs don't rely on their own DNS cache and treat that
> address as it should: with a very fast TTL....
> 
> as my machine runs 24h a day, and since i don't reboot very often, nor
> leave my Xsession, and since i open a quite fair amount of web pages, i
> can't restart galeon all few hours.... this means that after a few hours
> galeon becomes unusable for my work on my own machine for the rest of
> eternity, since that f****g program never updates its DNS cache....
> 
> that's why i am searching a way to flush its damn cache (or if possible
>     disable it completely, since it causes only problems...)

The Galeon lists would probably be a better place to ask this sort of
thing.  As a hacky workaround, you could just add an entry on your local
DNS server or your /etc/hosts thusly:

localipaddress          fqdn.dynamicdnsprovider.com

Local apps will then always resolve fqdn to a local address, but it
might be a Good Enough(tm) solution.

-rob

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