Re: Mozilla: changing IP w/o restarting
Pat Lashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 23:05:02 -0500 Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Mozilla on my 4.8 laptop. Whenever I switch IP addresses, which is frequent, as I use my computer both in the office and at home (and on trips, etc.), Mozilla becomes unable to resolve any sites it hasn't previously hit. I just get an endless, Resolving host www.nytimes.com note in the corner. The only way around this is to quit and restart the browser. Frankly, this is a pain in the ass, as I usually have six or more tabs open at once, each containing something I need, and I don't want to re-open everything every time I move the computer. Is there any way around this? I didn't see anything obvious in the Mozilla docs. Well, one work-around would be to switch from Mozilla to Galeon and use its session capabilities to automatically re-open all of the browser windows. (My primary desktop usually has over 100 tabs distributed across 45 to 50 galeon windows, spread over 5 of my 20 workspaces. Without sessions, I think the occasional crash would send me into a homicidal frenzy...) You could also try setting up something like djbdns's dnscache server on the laptop and then set resolv.conf to use 127.0.0.1. This may not help though - I seem to recall reading that Mozilla tries to improve DNS performance by doing it itself instead of trusting the system... (Actually, I think it was a complaint about Netscape; but if it does it at all, it's probably in the shared code.) If this is related to the problem that made mozilla hang for a few seconds on some lookups (ISTR it being related to missing records), it has been fixed a while ago (at least in firebird). The OP didn't specify the mozilla version he's using Apart from that, I also like the local DNS cache approach. You can do it with the built-in named as well. -- Dan Pelleg ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla: changing IP w/o restarting
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:01:35AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote: If this is related to the problem that made mozilla hang for a few seconds on some lookups (ISTR it being related to missing records), it has been fixed a while ago (at least in firebird). The OP didn't specify the mozilla version he's using I'm using Mozilla 1.5. I haven't had any problems with short hangs, FWIW. Jesse Sheidlower ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla: changing IP w/o restarting
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 23:05:02 -0500 Jesse Sheidlower [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Mozilla on my 4.8 laptop. Whenever I switch IP addresses, which is frequent, as I use my computer both in the office and at home (and on trips, etc.), Mozilla becomes unable to resolve any sites it hasn't previously hit. I just get an endless, Resolving host www.nytimes.com note in the corner. The only way around this is to quit and restart the browser. Frankly, this is a pain in the ass, as I usually have six or more tabs open at once, each containing something I need, and I don't want to re-open everything every time I move the computer. Is there any way around this? I didn't see anything obvious in the Mozilla docs. Well, one work-around would be to switch from Mozilla to Galeon and use its session capabilities to automatically re-open all of the browser windows. (My primary desktop usually has over 100 tabs distributed across 45 to 50 galeon windows, spread over 5 of my 20 workspaces. Without sessions, I think the occasional crash would send me into a homicidal frenzy...) You could also try setting up something like djbdns's dnscache server on the laptop and then set resolv.conf to use 127.0.0.1. This may not help though - I seem to recall reading that Mozilla tries to improve DNS performance by doing it itself instead of trusting the system... (Actually, I think it was a complaint about Netscape; but if it does it at all, it's probably in the shared code.) -Pat ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]