Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue.  When I leave
>>> Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the
>>> internet.  If I open Firefox, it works fine.  I can ping in a Konsole
>>> too.  In Seamonkey tho, not even a simple page like google will work.
>>> If I close Seamonkey and then restart it, it works fine.  I don't have
>>> to log out of KDE or anything either.  Just restart Seamonkey and it
>>> works for a few more hours. Also, it affects both browser and email.
>>>
>> Try visiting an IP address instead of a hostname. There's an internal
>> DNS cache; if that's what's stopped working you can turn it off with
>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dnsCacheExpiration in about:config.
>> And hopefully that avoids the lookup entirely.
>>
>>
>>
> Dang, that thing was set to like forever.  Default according to your
> link was supposed to be like 60 or something.  Mine was set to over
> 250,000.  O_O
>
> Maybe that will fix this thing.  I seem to recall it would have "looking
> up ****" at the bottom.  The **** is whatever website I was trying to
> get to.
>
> I'm not sure this is it but thanks much!!  Should know pretty soon.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>


Well, so far so good.  It sat here all night and most of yesterday and
it still works.  So, this setting fixed something. 

Thanks much.  Looks like I can stop closing and restarting now.  I was
beginning to think Linux was turning into windoze.  lol 

Dale

:-)  :-)

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