DNS, routing and strange timeouts (not quite newbie)

[Steve Cox]

Thanks,

I found out what it was. Upon starting, netscape attempts to resolve mail
and news server names - allegedly by refering to the root nameservers rather
than any local nameserver. The answer was to remove all remote news servers
from netscape.

Well, I use UNIX mailbox for mail so it's time to look into other
newsreaders.



Chris Hailes <chailes at ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:01bfbb88$3b66c340$c71fa8c0 at gerda.budgie.com.au...
> The devices inside your network should use the linux router DNS.  My guess
> is that Netscape is quering the ISP DNS that is unavailable when ppp is
> down.  When you install diald this will probably make it dial the isp.
>
> Chris
> Steve Cox <stevec at antispam.co.uk> wrote in article
> <QS4.74389$MB.1535911 at news6.giganews.com>...
> > HI all,
> >
> > I posted this the other day but I think the news server I used is
playing
> up
> > so I'm trying again - sorry if you've seen it before...
> >
> >
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