slow netscape startup

[Mark Gelinas]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 09:49:27AM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote:
> When my laptop is disconnected from the network, Netscape is extremely
> slow to load the default homepage.  It starts o.k., and eventually
> (several minutes later) loads the homepage.  I've tried making my
> homepage a local file://blahblah and using web page served up by Apache
> running locally.  I've tried turning named on and off.  I have my
> virtual hostname listed in /etc/hosts, and host.conf reads hosts,bind. 
> resolv.conf list three nameservers: this laptop, the caching nameserver
> on my office lan, and my isp's.  Is Netscape tring to resolve root
> nameservers or something?
> 
> ________________________
> Ron Peterson
> rpeterson at yellowbank.com

You could always try turning off asnychronous DNS and see if it
helps:

 bash/sh/ksh:   MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True
                export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS
 csh/tcsh:      setenv MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS True

See the README in your Netscape install directory for details.

MarkG
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