dip connections

[Mark J. Dulcey]

On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Peter Breton wrote:

> 
> I haven't tried it myself (soon, soon!) but there has been much 
> discussion in the Linux newsgroups about the new Netscape's DNS
> being broken (among other problems). Check out comp.os.linux.misc for the 
> whole story.

I've tried Netscape 2.0b1, and the Linux version certainly is broken.  
The cause is evidently that they linked with an old version of the 
C library.  The net result is that the wait for response from DNS is too 
short, causing a failure on non-cached entries, and ALWAYS causing an 
error if your nameserver is on the other end of a PPP link.

I have also heard of three fixes:

1.  Run under GDB, throwing away all SIGALRM signals.
2.  Run a name server on your Linux box.
3.  Run an HTTP proxy server on your Linux box.

Of course, you could also just wait for 2.0b2.

By the way, I've also tried the 16-bit Windows version, and it has its 
own (different) set of problems -- none quite as fatal as the Linux bug, 
though.