Re: What does "Resolving host" mean?

[Carlfish]

On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:27:09 +1000, Steve Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
     somehow managed to type:

>Agreed, but one last thing. The use of resolve in this sense was not 
>some arbitrary decision by some Mozilla engineer. RFC 1034 
>(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1034.txt) which defines the Domain Name 
>system labels programs which query name servers as "resolvers". So while 
>"looking up" might be better english it isn't as accurate from a 
>technical point of view.

What I'd really like to know, is why I see "Resolving Host" when every
request is going to a proxy server - the proxy's IP address should be
cached, and DNS resolution of the hostname in the URL is being deferred to
the proxy anyway.

Missing a "connecting to cache" message, perhaps? Anyone know if there's  
a bug on this?

Charles Miller