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Topic: Posting this from a newly Frugalled laptop, ... now I've got some questions

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ke4nt1

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Posted: July 16 2005,04:42

I'm curious what happens if you first connect to the internet
using firefox, then try using the myDSL app.

Sometimes, I have seen, when first hitting the desktop,
that if I try to connect to a website with dillo, I see some DNS errors.
( no connection )..

But, If I use firefox first, which always works on the first try,
then I can go back, and retry dillo, and it works too..

It's like, something in firefox kickstarts DNS.
Then all is well from there.. Maybe polling for proxies, or something?

Perhaps we need more than simply ' pump -i eth0(wlan0)(ath0) '
to get our DNS info from DHCP up and working??

Test and feedback..

73
ke4nt

adssse

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Posted: July 16 2005,05:01

Thanks for the reply ke4nt1.

I tried a little test to try and verify your theory.

I first rebooted to have everything fresh. I opened up the mydsl browser and chose gtk2. Got just a little bit of net activity for a second and than nothing. So I than killed it and relaunched with success.

Rebooted again, this time ran firefox like you suggested and than closed it. Than opened up the mydsl browser and chose gtk2. This time it worked well right off the bat.

So it seems to me that you are on to something.

roberts

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Posted: July 16 2005,09:35

mydsl browser is using wget for all net activity. There has been several threads concerning wget and proxy issues. If proxy is being used then could be that Firefox may establish it better than wget, at least initially.

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