fred smith wrote:
>
> I know I've seen this here before, but now I can't find it, so
> your help (and patience!) would be appreciated....
>
> Every time I fire up Netscape (NS 4.62 on RH 5.2) as soon as I click on
> ANY button, not matter WHICH button, diald (on my server, which is also
> RH 5.2) is started. I can't do anything in netscape til the link comes
> up. Even if all I want to do is view a local file.
>
> I guess netscape is spewing out a DNS request.
>
> How do I stop it from doing that?
The only way I know of to stop it is to delete your resolv.conf file on the local
client machine
(assuming, for instance, that it points to your ISP's DNS machines and domain). Then
you need
to run a proxy server (squid, apache-proxy, socks) on your gateway machine. I run
squid, and it
also proxies DNS requests (so anything that uses the proxy isn't peeved by the lack of
resolv.conf). You can also hard-code things like your ISP's mailserver, etc.
It's probably better to run your own local DNS and "virtual" domain (ie, anything you
want) but
I've never got around to trying anything like named/bind, yp, nis, etc.
I'm not sure why, but the stupid windoze Netscape client setup doesn't care if the ppp
link is
down; they hit my local webserver (also running on the ip-masq gateway) just fine,
even though
the TCP/IP properties point to my ISP's stuff, and I use my ISP's domain for my local
net as
well. It's just the Linux/Netscape client setup that hangs like that if you have a
local
resolv.conf that points to a nameserver outside your local network (even when the local
webserver is clearly in the local hosts file). Anybody care to answer that one?
And I believe it's Nutscrape - M.o.z.i.l.l.a. (or something like that)
Steve
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