On 2/20/10 9:00 PM, Josef Lowder wrote: > I have Firefox 3.5.6 running on two identical Thinkpad computers. > > It has been working fine on both for several months, but today, it > just quit working on one of them with the message quoted below. Both > are wirelessly connected on the same network. No changes were made on > either one. I have rechecked that all the settings are identical on > both computers. The one on which Firefox just quit working works fine > with Konqueror. I have checked and rechecked everything I can think > to check. I tried reinstalling Firefox from Synaptic. What could > have caused Firefox to just quit working? What can I do to get it > working again? > > Server not found > Firefox can't find the server at www.google.com. > * Check the address for typing errors such as > ww.example.com instead of www.example.com > * If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network > connection. > * If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, > make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > Its not a firefox issue. its a dns issue. How identical are the machines in question? running all the same processes? can you ssh from/to them?
I see a lot of such errors, not just with mozilla firefox, but also with safari, IE and even opera. Generally, it turns out to be a dns lookup failure. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
