Francesco Tomba wrote: > > Hello everybody, > this is the fiest time I post on this mailing list, so I hope you can help me. > It's a couple of weeks since wwwoffle started to show this problem. When I > start any of my browsers, I get this error log: > > -------------- > > WWWOFFLE Remote Host Error > > Your request for URL > http://www.repubblica.it/ > failed because > Cannot open the HTTP connection to www.repubblica.it port 80; [Name Lookup > Non-Authoritive Answer Host not found]. > > --------------- > > To fix it I have everytime to go su root, restart wwwoffled demon, and do > wwwoffle -online again. > Why is it so? > Can it be caused by some changes in my network identification? > > Thank you, > Francesco
Hi, This looks very similar to a problem I used to have when I called a different provider. The problem was that when the DNS-server configuration changes WWWOFFLE doesn't automatically notice that. This is described in the WWWOFFLE FAQ (Q 3.2). I changed the source code of my version of WWWOFFLE so that it calls res_init() each time it goes online. AMB advises against this (and he is probably right), but it works for me. The alternative suggested in the FAQ (setting up a local caching DNS-server), is just too much of a hassle for me right now. Happy Holidays! -- Paul A. Rombouts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vincent van Goghlaan 27 NL-5246 GA Rosmalen Netherlands
