A Williams wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
On 1/6/2010 10:31 AM, Mike Jevtic wrote:
After installing SM2 this afternoon I keep getting the following error
message for good few WEB sites, which with SM1 I have had no problems at all
Address Not Found
www.ebay.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again.
www.goggle.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again.
www.royalmail.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again.
netscape.aol.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again.
any help would be appreciated, Mike
I am seeing this problem rather often. After I dismiss the error popup,
I retry the link. It usually works then.
Instead of retrying, I can right-click on the link, select "Copy link
location", and paste the result into a DNS lookup tool I have. For
links that I have visited recently but cannot be accessed by SeaMonkey,
the tool always reports an IP address. I can then do a WhoIs on the IP
address, which gives a result consistent with the Web page I was trying
to reach.
Thus, it seems to be a problem with how SeaMonkey interfaces with the
Internet or interfaces with WindowsXP as an intermediary for interfacing
with the Internet. That is, it's likely a Gecko or Toolkit problem.
Now *that* is a problem I know, but it is my ISP's DNS servers which are
at fault. Not just that, the miserable barstewards then pass my input
on to a redirect screen which comes up with 1001 possible sites I could
be looking for while screwing up my original input line.
Changing DNS servers, flushing cache and clicking on the bookmark again
gets me the site. This is under Linux. Curiously enough, I think my
(Win XP) laptop can access the site on the normal DNS servers. Maybe
they fixed their DNS.
Have you tried OpenDNS. when the DNS is slow I switch my setup to us
OpenDNS They assign two DNS numbers. And seem to work faster. I use the
free version but they have several For Pay versions.
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
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