> This doesn't work too well with Mozilla: When I start up the browser before
> the internet connection is activated, Mozilla will try to access a web page
> and hangs loading it (it doesn't crash, but it doesn't connect, either).
>...
> I tested this on Linux with build 2001032205 - but this is a very old
> issue, I had similar problems with all versions of Netscape 4.x. Is there a
This looks like a generic dial-on-demand configuration problem. AFAICT
Mozilla doesn't behave differently from other networking applications here:
first it tries DNS resolution of the host name and then connecting to the
host.
Perhaps Mozilla's DNS timeouts are different from the system resolver, but
the point is that the DNS queries should be able to trigger dial on demand
and the second or third query should indeed get through.
Make sure your dial on demand works. (E.g. try
"telnet news.mozilla.org 119" to test it.) In particular, make sure your
/etc/resolv.conf (DNS configuration) is correct wrt. your ISP.
Olaf
