Carl Thorn wrote:
> I was curious to know what the differences in the way lynx and
> seamonkey/wget communicate with website servers. After several
> attempts and building beyond linux from scratch. I finally got X and
> fluxbox to work and I also have Seamonkey installed and it seems to
> work ok but it won't connect to urls but finds i.p. addressed with no
> problem. I have the same problem with wget. Urls won't load but I.P.
> addresses will. Lynx has no problem whatsoever with urls. Whats the
> difference?

It sounds like a nameserver problem.  Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is 
right.  You may also want to load the BIND utilities and try some name 
lookups with dig or nslookup.  It is curious that lynx works ok.  They 
may fall back to an internal nameserver, but I don't really know.

   -- Bruce
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