On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:57:08 +0000, Robert Synnott <rsynnott at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a strange network problem since I updated my distribution
> (to Mandrake 10.1 x86_64). Most applications (Mozilla, Firefox, all
> KDE applications) seem to be able to access the internet fine, but
> console applications, and a few graphical applications (gaim) can't;
> they seem to take about a minute to resolve the host-name. I have IPV6
> off. Any ideas?
> Rob.
>
Never mind, I fixed it. Just in case anyone's having similar problems,
some applications seem to get upset by the DNS caching system in the
Cayman Netopia ADSL equipment that eircom uses; just set the DNS to
ericom's own in resolv.conf, and set dhcp not to get DNS.
Rob
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