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* Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and path to internet
  @ 2013-05-21 21:26 99% ` Michael Orlitzky
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From: Michael Orlitzky @ 2013-05-21 21:26 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 05/20/2013 07:08 PM, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I noticed over the past few weeks a interesting issue.  When I leave
> Seamonkey open for several hours, it looses its connection to the
> internet.  If I open Firefox, it works fine.  I can ping in a Konsole
> too.  In Seamonkey tho, not even a simple page like google will work. 
> If I close Seamonkey and then restart it, it works fine.  I don't have
> to log out of KDE or anything either.  Just restart Seamonkey and it
> works for a few more hours. Also, it affects both browser and email. 
> 

Try visiting an IP address instead of a hostname. There's an internal
DNS cache; if that's what's stopped working you can turn it off with
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.dnsCacheExpiration in about:config.
And hopefully that avoids the lookup entirely.



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