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> > > 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? > I saw something on one list recently referring to this problem, and I > think it was related to Netscape trying to resolve a domain name, which it > couldn't do when not connected to the net. I think the answer was to put > whatever your home page is in /etc/hosts, or change it to not load your > home page on startup. I've had this happen whenever my box is pulled off the network or for some reason is lacking an internet connection. I have no homepage set, and there is something in a ~/.netscape setting that is is trying to resolve, despite a rather streamlined/minimal configuration. I've found no solution other than removing ~/.netscape, which is not advisable, really, or just waiting 5 minutes for whatever it is to timeout. If you find a reasonable answer, let me know. -b - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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