Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > I've got the opposite problem -- I'm on a dial-up (well, for a few > more weeks -- until the DSL gear arrives). For some reason DNS lookups > seem to be low priority and, if I'm downloading messages in Agent (from > three servers yet) and email (Eudora), Firefox often comes back with a > "host not found"; enter the same URL/bookmark again, and it finds the > page. It seems my system times out DNS requests when 1) I have a lot of > traffic on the dial-up connection, 2) the request may need to be > traversed (not cached on Earthlink)
Dragging the thread off-topic a little: I was having a similar DNS problem (host not found, try again immediately, 2nd try successful) but even in a no-other-load situation, and with this set of gear: * ADSL with Netgear DG834G v2 "wireless ADSL firewall router" * both hardwired and wireless LAN connection to router * Firefox, Thunderbird [normally] * IE6, Outlook Express [just to test if it was a Mozilla problem] * Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows 2000 SP4 The problem stopped after I upgraded the router firmware from version 1.something to 2.something, but this may be yet another instance of the "waved a dead chicken at the volcano" syndrome :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list