[ILUG] netscape problems

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Dermot Gorman wrote:

> worked fine and did not show this problem until recently. Is
> netscape trying to look up eircoms DNS's while offline or is it a
> misconfiguration in one of the /etc files?
> 

yep it's netscape trying to find things on the internet. disable 
'what's related' completely from your preferences. set your home page
to something local (eg file:/).. etc. etc.

but i bet it will still hang on startup for 2 minutes.

> any help appreciated,
> 
> Dermot


--paulj