fred smith said:
> 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.
Its probably looking for news or mail server. Netscape seems to want to do
this no matter what, probably so it can say "You got mail!", even when you
dont want it to.
Easiest remedy is to put 'news' and 'mail' entries in /etc/hosts that point to
something in the localdomain (/etc/host.conf should have 'order hosts,bind' in
it), and to set up netscape with these as the news and mail server addresses.
Guess you could just tell netscape that the news and mail servers are
'localhost' for that matter too.
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