Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 10116
netscape hangs
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:12:58 EDT
Netscape communicator 4.7.2 hangs after setting proxy settings. I am using squid 2-2-stable from web proxy. It hangs for five minutes after you start netscape and comes back with can't find url. But if you hit reload it bring's up the web page. Also after setting up mail for netscape using jsentry 3.1 mail proxy and get my mail. Then the next time I start netscape it hangs and does not ever respond. The only way to do anything is to reboot system.
Sounds like you're having problems with name resolution; what does /etc/resolv.conf look like, and how are you connected to the net?
closed, lack of input.
I am connecting through a dial up connection. the resovl.conf on server is set to dns settings for isp and work station is set to go to server. As I said before netscape navigator by it's self works fine through the redhat proxy server. But netscape commnuicator does not. I did however fix the problem by upgrading to netscape communicator ver 6.0.
If using a mozilla-based browser works, that's good. In any case, we really can't fix internal netscape networking behavior, as we don't have access to the source code.