Bug#493634: iceweasel: Iceweasel rewrites host in URL randomly

2008-08-03 Thread Bill Wohler
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.1-1 Severity: normal My network isn't the best. After the last upgrade to Iceweasel, whenever Iceweasel fails to contact the DNS server (this is an educated guess), it rewrites the host part of the URL with www.newt.com. My domain happens to be newt.com. For

Bug#493634: iceweasel: Iceweasel rewrites host in URL randomly

2008-08-03 Thread Bill Wohler
The problem was caused by a combination of a search newt.com directive and a wildcard DNS entry in my zone file. I've never used wildcards for reasons such as this, but when I recently switched to using Network Solutions's DNS manager, they set up a wildcard record by default and I neglected to