On Sunday 02 October 2005 19:05, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > I know that this sounds bizarre, but since I upgraded my system from > > Libranet 2.8 (2.4 kernel) to 3 (2.6 kernel, KDE 3.3.2), it appears that > > only KDE applications are able to connect to Internet sites using URLs. > > I have three non-KDE applications (Firefox, Moneydance, Epiphany (web > > browser)) that fail to connect using URLs and four KDE applications > > (Konqueror, KMail, KNode, KNewsTicker that succeed. Firefox and Epiphany > > are able to connect using IP numbers. The fact that IP numbers work > > suggests a DNS problem, but DNS lives at my ISP so I don't see how it > > would > > be able to discriminate against only certain apps. Well, I don't see how > > anything would. Is there anything in KDE that might account for this > > favoritism? > > It seems that my /etc/resolv.conf has the entry > > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > which corresponds to my gateway. It also has an entry for the correct > nameserver. When I delete the one for my gateway, applications other than > KDE work. Isn't KDE clever to overlook this misdirection? Now, if I could > just figure out why resolvconf is inserting this erroneous entry, I will > finally be done with this problem. Hi. I presume that each time you boot up the Libranet machine, your gateway IP address is turning up in /etc/resolv.conf. Have you tried booting up the machine while unplugged from the network? Does the gateway address still turn up in /etc/resolv.conf ? What OS do you have on the gateway machine connected to the Internet? I've got KDE 3.3.2 on my Debian boxes, and notice in control centre/KDE components/Service manager there is a start up service named "KDE Internet Daemon" . Whether that has anything to do with why the KDE apps work but the others don't, I don't know. Nigel. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.