I turned off IPv6 and it works. What Mozilla are you using? I thought Mozilla used IPv6 by default. I'm going to email actiontec and whine that their router doesn't work. leif > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:52:38PM -0700, Leif Johnson wrote: > > I just got qwest dsl and it came with an Actiontec > > GT701-wg modem/gateway. Using dhcp running a 2.6 > > kernel (SuSE or Knoppix) my computer doesn't resolve > > host names correctly. Using a 2.4 kernel (SuSE or > > Knoppix) or FreeBSD 4.8 everything works fine. Has > > any one else run into this problem? > > I've been having similar problems. 2.4 or 2.6 kernel makes no difference for > me (I'm running Debian), but some apps have problems and others don't. > Mozilla doesn't have a problem, but apt-get and lynx do. I tried to follow > what was going on with tcpdump and got the impression that some apps try an > IPV6 name lookup before falling back to IPV4. It seems that the IPV6 request > borks the name server in the Actiontec and makes it return the IP address > 1.0.0.0 for the next IPV4 request. I updated to the latest firmware from > Qwest, but still have the problem. My workaround for now has been to use > host (which doesn't have this problem) to cache the name lookup before > running apt-get, or else list another name server before the actiontec in > /etc/resolv.conf. > > -Steve _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list