[Tfug] More Questions on KDE

[Jim Secan]

Adrian's note rang a bell - I had a similar problem with QWest DSL and an
ActionTEC GT701-WG DSL modem some months back on an FC3 system.  The "fix"
(kludge, actually) that worked for me was:

1.  Insert the IP addresses of your ISPs DNS systems in /etc/resolv.conf

2.  Insert PEERDNS=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
(assuming eth0 is your Internet network interface)

The first action forces the use of the ISPs DNS systems (for whatever
reason the ActionTEC was telling the Linux system that it should use it as the
primary DNS).  The second action disables the ability of the DHCP server
(the ActionTEC) to change the settings in resolv.conf.  (This explanation
may be wide of the mark - it's how things were 'splained to me.  Maybe
Adrian's IPv6 explanation is what's really going on.)

I'm sure, as usual, YMMV, but it might be worth a try.

Jim

At 10:32 AM 2/15/2006 -0700, Adrian wrote:
>Let me take a wild guess... your on Qwest DSL right? They gave you a little 
>white external DSL modem box right? The problem isn;t FF persay, it is the 
>DSL modem Qwest gave you! In the default configuration, FF 1.0.6+ (I think, 
>as well as several other apps) try to do an IPv6 DNS query for domains in 
>addition to a IPv4 query... That little white DSL modem Qwest gave you barfs 
>on the IPv6 and then always replies with a 1.0.0.0 address as the DNS 
>response. FF then tries to go to 1.0.0.0, the address the Qwest box gave it, 
>and never gets a response...

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