[Sunhelp] Netscape 4.7 won't lookup DNS

[Xavier Mertens]

David,

I had exactly the same problem after upgrading to Solaris 8!
The problem was the nscd! Be sure that nscd is running and caches the
hostname lookups!

X

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, David Rouse wrote:

> I've got a Sparc10 running Solaris 2.7 and OpenWindows (with patches as of
> mid-January) which I have recently put connected to the Internet through an
> IPX with a modem, pppd, ip_filters and an ethernet hub.
> 
> When I establish a connection almost everything works fine: I can
> traceroute, nslookup, ping, ftp, etc., even the hotjava browser works, but
> when I start up Netscape (4.7) and try to type in an url I get nothing. I'm
> logged in as a regular user.
> 
> Snoop shows a DNS query, but Netscape doesn't do anything and quickly its
> controls become inoperative. There doesn't seem to be a huge amount of
> system activity. Truss shows bursts of activity I can't understand followed
> by sleeps. I've never waited long enough to see if it would ever time out, a
> regular kill or control c (if launched from a Command Tool window) will
> clear Netscape.
> 
> If I choose a file to open or give it a numeric address Netscape works fine.
> Things I've tried -- Start Netscape as root, trash user prefs folder and the
> Solaris/DNS tip in the Netscape README file. Even rebooting the machine.
> 
> Any suggestions? Should I just reinstall the ugly sucker?
> 
> 
> 
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