Heaven help you if you've got caching-nameserver installed.... can you explain please ??? Charley -----Original Message----- From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Alright! time to nuke NT Kuraiken wrote: > > Right, that did the trick! > Thanks, yet again, Steve! > > I wonder why the Linux version does it though...it doesn't in win95/NT version... Because Win95 couldn't route itself out of a paper bag? What you're seeing is proper behavior. What's causing it is most likely a configuration error on your end. If you have just /etc/resolv.conf and a nameserver entry in it, Netscape will attempt to resolve the name to an IP number. Since it can't reach the nameserver, it will time out after a specified amount of time (30 seconds if I remember correctly). You probably have a couple nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf, so it tries each one in succession. Heaven help you if you've got caching-nameserver installed, as it'll try to reach each of the root nameservers in turn. Eventually, it WILL time out. Anyway, just keep it in mind if you have problems like that in the future. > Steve Philp wrote: > > > Kuraiken wrote: > > > > > > Greetings folks, > > > > > > Okay, I'm writing this in KMail. I like it but will have to move my mail over. > > > I'd like to continue using Netscape mail for awhile at least...but I can't seem > > > to get into the [mail] part of the Netscape preferences area without hanging > > > netscape. Only a kill [procnum] would get rid of the process. What gives? > > > > It's trying to resolve the name you entered for the mail server. If > > you're not online at the time, it'll hang for (quite) a while. Set it > > up while you're online. Same thing will happen when you enter a news > > server name. > > -- > -------------------------------------- > Kuraiken - Apprentice Codecaster > -------------------------------------- -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
