Is netscape firing up the mail client (messenger) when it starts. From
version 4.51 onwards messenger will attempt to connect to the Netscape
Portal site as soon as it goes on line, this could be causing diald to dial
out.
To stop this locate the prefs.js file in the users preferences directory,
you need to add the following to the end of the file
user_pref("mailnews.start_page.enabled", false);
Hope this works
Alastair
Alastair French
Racal Instruments Ltd
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Mobile 0976 740819
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gyepi SAM [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 3:18 AM
> To: Rod Pike
> Cc: diald
> Subject: Re: Netscape 4.6 causing diald to fire.
>
> On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 09:05:40PM +0200, Rod Pike wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just upgraded my linux to RH6.0 from 5.1. Now when I launch Netscape
> > (4.6) and access my home page ( which is on my diald server, another
> > machine still running 5.1 ) diald fires up and accesses my ISP.
> > Everything was fine using the same hardware configuration and the
> > previous version of Netscape that shipped with RH5.1. All that has
> > changed is an upgrade to the client machine. I've turned off the
> > automated mail checking and anything else that in the preferences that
> > might access the internet. Here's what I get from a TCP dump.
> >
>
> Instead of posting a tcp dump, you might try setting the debug flags in
> diald to see what's causing it. If you are not running a named server
> on your internal network, netscape will attempt to use the ISPs. I seem
> to recall that netscape does not use the libc dns library but connects
> directly to the named server. If true, then netscape would diald out to
> the ISP even when you connect to another machine on your network unless
> you running a local named server.
>
>
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