Graham Murray writes:
> "Richard Thwaites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm running 99.3 on Mandrake 7. distro, and also overlaid pmfirewall with
> > its default rules (to save getting out of my depth in ipchains).
> >
> > My Netscape browser is set to open on a blank page - however whenever I open
> > the browser on the blank page, diald starts up my dial-up link .
> >
> > Today I let the link hangup at my usual timeout (30mins) while I was doing
> > other things, but left the browser open. When I came to close the browser
> > before logging off, diald brought up the link again as Netscape was closing
> > - not much point in that!
> >
> > I have browser prefs set to allow cookies after warning me first - but no
> > cookie warning accomapnies these unwanted diald-ups.
> >
> > Can anyone kindly point me to what ipchains rules or other settings I should
> > check so that Netscape only stimulates diald when I actually ask it to?
>
> I don't think that this is an Ipchains issue. What I think is
> happening is that when Netscape starts it attempts to connect to all
> of the mail and news servers you have configured. Even if you only
> open the browser, not a mail or new reader, then it still does this. I
> suspect that it is doing something similar when it shuts down.
>
> One solution (which will not be acceptable if you use Netscape for
> reading news and/or mail) is not to configure a mail or news server in
> the preferences. Also, if you only use Netscape as a web browser you
> might consider changing to using Navigator rather Communicator.
To avoid these problems, you can list the appropriate news server in
your hosts file.
This can be verified by dns logging.
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