On Mon, 23 May 2022 23:09:35 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Wamm K. D." <[email protected]> writes: > > > The consequence is that I've noticed a particular behavior > > relatively frequently: when the connection drops, the browser I'm > > using will get stuck thinking that it cannot connect to the > > internet once the internet connection comes back, sometimes > > (especially if I tried to load a page while the internet connection > > was down). Trying to load any other page results in the "Unable to > > Connect" (or equivalent) page. > > When this happens again, please visit “about:networking#dns” and clear > the DNS cache. Maybe this helps. > > On Guix System there’s also nscd, which has its own cache. It’s > possible that a lookup failure is cached there as well. To clear the > nscd cache use “sudo herd invalidate nscd”. > Wouldn't newly opened sites on different domain not be affected by the cache? When this happens with me IceCat simply does not open *anything*. Entirely fresh lookups fail. But I guess just testing the cache clearing solution could easily prove or disprove the theory. If it really is DNS cache related, then someone should probably write a bug report upstream.
