Subject: opera6 refuses dns lookups
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Audun Arnesen Nordal <audun@stud.cs.uit.no>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/10/2002 14:01:06
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I'm seeing some weird behavior with opera6. I run 1.6H as of September
17th, relevant packages:

opera-6.03
suse_base-7.3
suse_compat-7.3
suse_x11-7.3nb2

Opera6 refuses to look up any hostnames, immediately saying "Could not
locate remote server" or just hangin for a while after typing a url.  
tcpdump shows that no dns-query is emitted. I have "Synchronous DNS"
checked in opera by default, but the same happens if it is unchecked. My
workaround has been to use a proxy server and put the name of that in
/etc/hosts (which opera looks up ok).

My nsswitch.conf is attached.

Anyone else seen this?

Regards


-- 
Audun Nordal



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