> Not sure that my mileage is you problem, but may be of interest...
>
> My experience of Open Transport is that under some conditions (unknown when
> this occurs), failure of a DNS lookups causes the IP stack to hang. It gets so
> bad that even ping'ing the machine does not work. A forcible quit of the
> process usually goes OK - but afterwards a system restart seems a safe bet.
IE,
> Netscape and Eudora all seem to have the same problem. I have a DNS lookup
> utility, which seems to have an internal mechanism for killing off
gethostent()
> lookups (or whatever they are under MacOS) and restoring sanity. Problem I
have
> found is that it is intermittent and just one of the (many) foibles of MacOS
> and TCP. Apple do not seems too interested. [I am running 8.6 UK edition.]
>
> malcolm
Hi Malcolm. It was a bug. Turned off the DNS lookups, which are perceived as
warnings. Works like a charm now.
Cheers.
### Rich Fortnum / Viaduct Productions / Toronto
### http://www.viaduct-productions.com
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