[NMLUG] Actiontek/Mozilla problem

[deathandtaxes at caglan.net (Dan Parrish)]

bg wrote:
> Ok, I have Suse 10 RC1. It's a nice distro.
> 
> I installed it and everything I checked worked nicely (Evolution worked,
> Mozilla worked). My Actiontek modem rebooted over the weekend and all of
> a sudden, Mozilla no longer accesses the 'net and Evolution gives and
> occassional 'no route to host' dialog box.
> 
> What's weird is Konquerer works fine (Mozilla is stone dead). I have
> tried clearing Mo's cache, but that doesn't seem to work, so I'm
> suspecting this less-than-stellar Actiontek modem. Any help is
> appreciated.
> 
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Well, what you are talking about sounds more to me like some dhcp 
issues.  Are you using dhcp or statically binding your NIC on the Suse 
box?  Are you using the actiontec for a dhcp server?

Answering these will help us start to troubleshoot what's going on. 
Don't get me wrong, it is strange that Mozilla isn't working and 
Konqueror is, but I'm not sure how these two apps handle domain 
resolution and/or caching differently.

I'd try to bypass the whole dhcp process if you could.  Statically bind 
your network settings and manually put your ISP's nameserver settings in 
/etc/resolv.conf.  This is trying to limit the number of points of 
possible failure.

-Dan