Re: [expert] Netscape 4.61 'stable', MOZILLA_HOME variable, plugins
Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! I experienced something strange: When I set the MOZILLA_HOME variable to Netscape's installation directory, it becomes unusuable for offline use because it constantly tries to access a DNS server. Unsetting the variable removes that prob. Trouble is that without that variable Netscape doesn't seem to load plugins (npflash). So what I need is: either advice to turn off the DNS requests even if the variable is set or someone to tell me how to get that modules loaded without the variable. Anyone? Check the archive, Steve answered this one about 5-6 months ago export something_DNS_something 0 Wow, can't believe someone remembered this post! Here's what you'll want to add to ~/.bashrc to try it: export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True Then logout and log back in, start X, then start Netscape. You can still use the MOZILLA_HOME variable to do whatever things you were using it for. For more documentation, you might try the README in the /usr/doc/netscape-common-version directory. It's got some useful information in it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot, both of you! tom
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.61 'stable', MOZILLA_HOME variable, plugins
Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! I experienced something strange: When I set the MOZILLA_HOME variable to Netscape's installation directory, it becomes unusuable for offline use because it constantly tries to access a DNS server. Unsetting the variable removes that prob. Trouble is that without that variable Netscape doesn't seem to load plugins (npflash). So what I need is: either advice to turn off the DNS requests even if the variable is set or someone to tell me how to get that modules loaded without the variable. Anyone? Check the archive, Steve answered this one about 5-6 months ago export something_DNS_something 0 Wow, can't believe someone remembered this post! Here's what you'll want to add to ~/.bashrc to try it: export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True Then logout and log back in, start X, then start Netscape. You can still use the MOZILLA_HOME variable to do whatever things you were using it for. For more documentation, you might try the README in the /usr/doc/netscape-common-version directory. It's got some useful information in it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, with this setting NS won't use the DNS at all... Regards tom
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.61 'stable', MOZILLA_HOME variable, plugins
Tom Berger wrote: Steve Philp wrote: Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! I experienced something strange: When I set the MOZILLA_HOME variable to Netscape's installation directory, it becomes unusuable for offline use because it constantly tries to access a DNS server. Unsetting the variable removes that prob. Trouble is that without that variable Netscape doesn't seem to load plugins (npflash). So what I need is: either advice to turn off the DNS requests even if the variable is set or someone to tell me how to get that modules loaded without the variable. Anyone? Check the archive, Steve answered this one about 5-6 months ago export something_DNS_something 0 Wow, can't believe someone remembered this post! Here's what you'll want to add to ~/.bashrc to try it: export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True Then logout and log back in, start X, then start Netscape. You can still use the MOZILLA_HOME variable to do whatever things you were using it for. For more documentation, you might try the README in the /usr/doc/netscape-common-version directory. It's got some useful information in it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, with this setting NS won't use the DNS at all... Actually, all that setting does is prevent NS from forking off a separate process to do DNS resolution. I originally used it to get rid of the stall that results from starting NS when I'm not online. This may be primarily caused by my use of caching-nameserver, but I'm not about to give that up! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.61 'stable', MOZILLA_HOME variable, plugins
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! I experienced something strange: When I set the MOZILLA_HOME variable to Netscape's installation directory, it becomes unusuable for offline use because it constantly tries to access a DNS server. Unsetting the variable removes that prob. Trouble is that without that variable Netscape doesn't seem to load plugins (npflash). So what I need is: either advice to turn off the DNS requests even if the variable is set or someone to tell me how to get that modules loaded without the variable. Anyone? Check the archive, Steve answered this one about 5-6 months ago export something_DNS_something 0 Thanks tom P.S.: It might of interest that I currently use kppp for dial in. My /etc/resolv.conf contains the line search localdomain (don't know what program had put this line in there, presumably kppp). Since I use different providers I can't add anything useful to it, can I? search just tells it were to look for one word hostnames, you could add all your isp's domains. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [expert] Netscape 4.61 'stable', MOZILLA_HOME variable, plugins
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Tom Berger wrote: Hi! I experienced something strange: When I set the MOZILLA_HOME variable to Netscape's installation directory, it becomes unusuable for offline use because it constantly tries to access a DNS server. Unsetting the variable removes that prob. Trouble is that without that variable Netscape doesn't seem to load plugins (npflash). So what I need is: either advice to turn off the DNS requests even if the variable is set or someone to tell me how to get that modules loaded without the variable. Anyone? Check the archive, Steve answered this one about 5-6 months ago export something_DNS_something 0 Wow, can't believe someone remembered this post! Here's what you'll want to add to ~/.bashrc to try it: export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True Then logout and log back in, start X, then start Netscape. You can still use the MOZILLA_HOME variable to do whatever things you were using it for. For more documentation, you might try the README in the /usr/doc/netscape-common-version directory. It's got some useful information in it. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
