[Linux-disciples] Re: Continuing name-resolution weirdness

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:09:18PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:52:43PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > Hmm. Well, disabling Privoxy -- something I should have
> > done before -- fixed it. Now I wonder why Privoxy is messing
> > up name resolution; at least the problem is narrower now.
> I was going to suggest privoxy. Most applications do DNS look-up in the
> same way--it's hard to imagine a Firefox-specific bug along these lines.
> I wonder if your privoxy is configured to access another proxy? What
> happens if you still use privoxy, but configure privoxy to allow all
> requests to pass-through?

Periodically this problem recurs: I'll switch from one SSID
to another, and suddenly my browser will tell me that it
can't load a particular page or do a particular DNS lookup.
Disabling Privoxy in the browser works. Better is to restart
Privoxy (/etc/init.d/privoxy restart) and then reload the
page in the browser.

I get the sense that Privoxy is caching something that it
shouldn't, and that restarting Privoxy clears the cache.

Straw will also have weird nameserver problems from time to
time. I think this may be related to ADNS, though I'm not
really sure what that means; I've just seen in a few places
that Straw would like to get rid of ADNS for its lookups.

I think the story with name resolution and wireless is
actually a fair bit more complicated than It Just Works.

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