Rob Byrnes wrote: > Well, after adding search <local IP> to the /etc/resolv.conf file, I'm happy > to say that Netscape now works.
Well, THANKS for the info. This solved the mysterious Netscape DNS problem for me, too. However, Netscape seems quite unstable and may occasionally either kill itself or, worse, kill the whole X session (I think it kills the X server, because the behavior is similar to pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace; XDM merrily greets me with a new login screen.) I downloaded Netscape from Compaq (in RPM format, netscape-4.7-3.alpha.rpm) and used alien (with default options) to make a deb package. The system is a 166 MHz UDB (noname) with 128 MB RAM and enough disk space. I am running plain vanilla potato with kernel 2.2.17. The X server is xserver-tga 3.3.6-11potato and the window manager is fvwm 2.2.4-2. Almost everything on the system comes from the stable potato distribution; the only exceptions are Netscape and ssh2 (2.0.13-5.1), the latter grabbed from woody non-US. Being affiliated with SSH Communications Security Corp, I will never downgrade to OpenSSH... (I should, however, take the time to debianize a newer version of ssh2. Release 2.4.0 is going to ship this week.) This may be a more generic X problem (not limited to Netscape) because I can also witness the following weird behavior: i) The first X session after reboot always fails. (XDM accepts login, but the X server is restarted within a few seconds.) ii) Even running Netscape from a remote Unix machine (over a SSH tunneled X session) causes a X server restart. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions on how to isolate/debug the problem. I am generally familiar with Unix, but quite new to Debian/Alpha from the sysadmin's point of view. Regards, Topi -- ============ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/topij/ ============
