On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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
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Good information - I've got the same problem. I use kppp for dialing up,
in KDE - how do I put a "ping" in the dialup script?
Thanks,
Chip.
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