> > > > > > Any ideea why does Netscape (4.72) starts a dns querry when it starts? > > > > It may be looking for your news server, or may be looking for your machine. > > It makes sense to put your own machine's name in /etc/hosts, and you might > > have to put an entry for the NNTP server there as well. > > It seems that ethereal is not able to read from ppp0 after it was > rerouted from a tap device ... > > I've listened to the tap0 then and this is what I've got: > > source 192.168.1.5 (my tap0 device) > destination 193.231.208.1 (my ISP's DNS) > protocol DNS > info: standard query A news.localdomain > > > If tcpdump's too gobble-de-gookey for you, you can download "etherial", the > > world's coolest packet sniffer, from www.zing.org > > ;-) thanx > > > Once you see what's causing the link-up, put the corresponding entry into > > /etc/hosts, and make sure /etc/host.conf has "order hosts, bind" in it. > > my hosts: > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 192.168.0.4 localhost.localdomain > 192.168.0.4 news.localdomain > > my host.conf > order hosts,bind > multi on > > my resolv.conf > search localdomain > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > nameserver 193.231.208.1 > > I also have 'dnsserver -s 193.231.208.1' from squid. > > I have no news server configured and if I try to delete it from > netscape it reapears. > > All this, but netscape still pops up the connection. Please, what else > should I do? You can get rid of the news server - in your home directory, there's probably a file called .newsrc-news.localdomain. Remove it. Then go to ~/.netscape/xover-cache, and remove the subdirectory host-news.localdomain. You should then be able to start netscape, and have the default news server be whatever other server you've defined, if any. It's a bug in netscape, obviously - don't know if later versions have that problem or not. You should then be able to remove news.localdomain from /etc/hosts. Let us know how it goes... - Phil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-diald" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
