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On 05/22/2013 09:51 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 21/05/2013 23:36, Dale wrote: |
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>> Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>>> On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Howdy, |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue. When I leave |
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>>>> Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the |
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>>>> internet. If I open Firefox, it works fine. I can ping in a Konsole |
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>>>> too. In Seamonkey tho, not even a simple page like google will work. |
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>>>> If I close Seamonkey and then restart it, it works fine. I don't have |
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>>>> to log out of KDE or anything either. Just restart Seamonkey and it |
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>>>> works for a few more hours. Also, it affects both browser and email. |
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>>>> |
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>>> Try visiting an IP address instead of a hostname. There's an internal |
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>>> DNS cache; if that's what's stopped working you can turn it off with |
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>>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dnsCacheExpiration in about:config. |
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>>> And hopefully that avoids the lookup entirely. |
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>> Dang, that thing was set to like forever. Default according to your |
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>> link was supposed to be like 60 or something. Mine was set to over |
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>> 250,000. O_O |
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> Hmmm. Mine is set the same - 30 days. |
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> I wonder how that could have happened when Mozilla's wiki recommends 60 |
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> seconds as default |
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Looks like there's two variables with similar names: |
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network.dnsCacheExpiration (60) |
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Network.dnsCacheExpirationGracePeriod (2592000) |
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I only have the latter and the default seems fine according to: |
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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2680535 |
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(5th post and down, on second page) |
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