On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Agus Budy Wuysang wrote:
> Nick Phillips wrote:
> >
> > Jonathan Pennington wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone else have, or know of, this problem?
> > >
> > > When I open netscape, then messenger, I have to wait for a long time for
> > > the mail window to open. This is up to 1-2 minutes sometimes! During
> > > that time, netscape and my computer are locked.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Yep. It tries to look up your mail server on your DNS. That causes ppp
> > to dial up, but the first DNS request packet gets lost, and the time
> > between retries is quite large. If you bring ppp up with a ping before
> > you open netscape, it'll come up much quicker.
>
> I don't think that's the problem, because my (pop) mail server
> is on local network with local DNS server... it must be something
> else (the problem starts occuring since 4.06, maybe 4.05, well
> I can't recall precisely :).
A DNS lookup should not stop everything.
However, netscape does do some unnecessary DNS lookups - the twit-authors
don't allow for the possibility folk might want to use it offline and it
goes looking for places such as home.netscape.com "just in case."
run this command to see where netscape's mentioned:
find .netscape/ -type f -exec grep -il netscape.com '{}' ';' | grep -v cache
Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
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