firefox binary version doesn't do dns

barrymac · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 87

Hi All,

I've got a problem with the binary installation of firefox on my 64bit system. It doesn't seem to do any DNS at all anymore. I've tried turning off the DNS cache but still no websites are found. I've tried versions 2.0.14, 3.0.04 and 3.0.0.5.

I have a non-binary version 2.0.14 installed and this works fine.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks in advance.

SeaTiger · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject:

Can you post content of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts?

Also try do

barrymac · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 87

I can ping things fine, and everything else works, so it's purely a firefox-bin issue. possibly something related to the 64bit environment

Here's my resolve:
# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
search misys.global.ad
nameserver 128.1.30.129
nameserver 10.80.49.117

which I DID edit!

hosts file:
127.0.0.1 duet

::1 localhost

Actually this last entry is something I haven't seen before

# ping yahoo.com
PING yahoo.com (206.190.60.37) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.re4.yahoo.com (206.190.60.37): icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=100 ms

SeaTiger · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject:

A few things to try:
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