Donn Washburn aka N5XWB wrote:
Hey Group:
First time using this list server.
I have had problems getting Netcscape/Communicator 4.04PE to find the pppd. It appears that pppd is running as called up by ezppp. ezppp seems to connect, login and startup ppp. At that point trying Netscape gets a URL or DNS not found type of error.
Netscape Communicator is extremely dependent upon DNS working correctly. If you have a home page that you want Netscape to find when you start it up, you will notice that it does a dns lookup before you actually see the browser materialize on your screen. It will refuse to finish loading until either it gets it damn lookup, or it has a very long timeout of several minutes waiting for a reply that will never come until your machine is connected to the net. They also run a daemon that shows up as a child of netscape, called "dns helper". Evidently this thing does some sort of lowlevel DNS caching. Earlier versions would leave this child as an orphan process even after netscape was killed. The last version I have, 4.04 seems to kill the child if the parent is exited cleanly, and appears to go away most of the time now. I have noticed that dnshelper seems to be a lagger when it comes to updating itself with fressh info, something to be aware of. It seems to catch up well enough most of the time Incidently, I have not experienced many of the problems that I have seen on this list, as I have downloaded directly from Netscape. The concept of getting Netscape as an RPM does not really appeal to me, as I have used the crappy little install routine from Netscape and it seems to work fine. I've seen more of the classic "bus error" problems with the Solaris version of Netscape than I have on the the more recent Linux ELF versions. The only real "bug" I have seen is the fact that the Linux version has some kind of "punctuation translation error" with HTML documents produced by other-than-Unix versions of Netscape Composer. Is this some kind of NLS or keyboard map problem? For example, words or phrases with an apostrophe, or quotes, (punctuation) wind up with a question mark instead of the appropriate punctuation. "John's" becomes John?s , or "Corp.'s" becomes "Corp.?s" ...but back on an NT or Win 95 machine that created the document, the punctuation is ok. Publishing from the Unix/Linux version then publishes the ? instead of the original punctuation. -tks- -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e