On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:01:00AM +0200, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Marius Gedminas wrote: > > >It has happened to me a couple of times: I'm supposedly online, but > >every attempt to resolve a name gives me a "Network error". Going > >offline and back online helps. > > This could be DNS fault. Happened to me too. dnsmasq deamon caches > negative dns lookups (i.e. those which failed), this can be turned off > via -N commandline flag. also try to restart dnsmasq (as root) when this > happens > # /etc/init.d/dnsmasq restart > Does it help? If yes this should be reported in bugzilla. > > I have added -N to OPTS in /etc/init.d/dnsmasq but I'm not sure it > helped or not. I don't have this error frequently. Thanks for the suggestion. Forgive me, I'm quite the novice at this. How might I do the above in the absence of a term? Does a reboot clear the dns lookup cache? A reboot does not clear up my problem. BTW, I've downloaded a second copy of the flash image file and got the same MD5 as the first. Here is a bit more information: 1) the 770 browser works on web servers on my LAN 2) the 770 browser fails on internet sites even when I specify the IP, 64.233.167.99 for google for instance. -- Willie, ONWARD! Through the fog! http://counter.li.org Linux registered user #228836 since 1995 Debian3.1/GNU/Linux system uptime 184 days 12 hours 17 minutes
