On Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Jim Bernard  wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:37:27PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> > 
> > Anyone having problems with the Linux emulation(?) and Netscape 4.79
> > in 1.5ZC/i386? I updated my host today (Apr 11 11:19:08 CEST 2002) and
> > Netscape won't work after showing the initial screen, it just hangs after
> > displaying "Connect: Looking up host: www.netbsd.org". tcpdump doesn't
> > show any DNS activity...
> 
> Yes.  I upgraded kernel and userland April 6 (Sat Apr  6 09:54:30 MST 2002),
> as well as upgrading suse to 7.3 and netscape to 4.79, and now netscape is
> unable to look up any hosts.  I temporarily snarfed a copy of 4.77 from
> another machine, and it had the same problem on the upgraded machine, so
> it's evidently not a problem with netscape.  I haven't had time to
> investigate further.
> 
> > My old kernel (Apr  5 09:52:16 CEST 2002) works just fine...
> 
> Sounds like a good clue.

I had the same problem with Suse-7.3 and Netscape 4.79 until I enabled INET6
in my kernel (see PR/16236). Christos Zoulas has commited a fix to the tree
on Mon Apr 8 14:00:32 UTC 2002 that should make it work without INET6 in the
kernel, but I have not checked if it works yet.

Joachim