I connect with my ISP via Wvdial the connection is OK and can surf using Lynx. In a xterm I successfully ping to the IP address of ISP DNS server. The problem is: when launch Netscape the connection don't die but no more ping replies from the ISP DNS server.
How can I disable DNS resolution in Netscape???

Many Thanks

Artur Oliveira

Very strange
 

To disable DNS resolution on Netscape would render it unusable - I think you need to look elsewhere for the problem. Do you get problems with any other application?? I can't say I've ever heard of anything like this... Is netscape running as root? If its not then its even stranger that a userspace application would take an interface out...

Any more details available? If you snoop ppp0 (something like 'tcpdump -i ppp0') is something else eating all your bandwidth?

Jamie...

well u cant. how would it then know how to look up domainnames? Netscape forks off a second instance called "dns helper" (ps). That behaviour can be stopped with MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=true, which was ment for ppl who run their own bind/named so itll make resolving slower. (*Running Bind aint necessary for DNS lookups, its for ppl who provide services eg. being the auth. nameserver for a domain, named is a "caching-only" DNS.)

A way to bypass NS' DNS behaviour would be proxying tru say Junkbuster. Itll not only filter all those crappy banners but handle DNS requestes as well.