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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 21:37:12
Message-Id: 519BE8D6.50702@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet by Michael Orlitzky
1 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote:
3 >> Howdy,
4 >>
5 >> I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue. When I leave
6 >> Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the
7 >> internet. If I open Firefox, it works fine. I can ping in a Konsole
8 >> too. In Seamonkey tho, not even a simple page like google will work.
9 >> If I close Seamonkey and then restart it, it works fine. I don't have
10 >> to log out of KDE or anything either. Just restart Seamonkey and it
11 >> works for a few more hours. Also, it affects both browser and email.
12 >>
13 > Try visiting an IP address instead of a hostname. There's an internal
14 > DNS cache; if that's what's stopped working you can turn it off with
15 > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dnsCacheExpiration in about:config.
16 > And hopefully that avoids the lookup entirely.
17 >
18 >
19 >
20
21 Dang, that thing was set to like forever. Default according to your
22 link was supposed to be like 60 or something. Mine was set to over
23 250,000. O_O
24
25 Maybe that will fix this thing. I seem to recall it would have "looking
26 up ****" at the bottom. The **** is whatever website I was trying to
27 get to.
28
29 I'm not sure this is it but thanks much!! Should know pretty soon.
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)
34
35 --
36 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>