On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:02:07PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > I tried reproducing your problem as follows: > 1/ type an invalid host name in galeon, this resulted in the usual > Galeon warning: > foobar could not be found. > > Check that you are connected to the internet, and that the address > is correct. > > 2/ define this host name in /etc/hosts pointing to host with a web > server > 3/ re-enter the domain name in Galeon and see the page being loaded > > There were only a couple of seconds between 1 and 3, so I suppose that > I would have seen the negative cache hit that you describe. > > > I have another explanation not involving Galeon for your problem: your > DNS server or your proxy didn't respond in time or couldn't resolve the > host name, or the host name was temporarily unresolvable because of DNS > changes, but dig could resolve the host name a minute later on its own. > > dig is a separate resolver than the one of your system, and often > doesn't query the same servers than as system. > > Do you have a reliable way of reproducing the problem? Did you > experience it more than once? Please provide a detailed procedure on > how to reproduce the problem on my side, otherwise there's nothing I > can do. >
Hello, I didn't have a way to reproduce it, but some observations: 1) about the mentionned site: it seems www.sips.org has moved to sourceforge, and now this domain has nothing to see with Free Software. So maybe there was an address migration, with some servers updated and some other not ? 2) it also seems that sometimes the culprit is squid itself. I have a setup where I use external servers on my network at work first, then a local one. It seems that if squid does not get a reply fast enough, it consider the address as bogus and will refuse to check it again in a short delay, yet it was resolved after the first miss. The solution is to restart squid. So, I guess the problem has nothing to see with galeon, and I'm OK with the fact of forgetting about this bug reports. Thanks for your time Pascal -- Dr. ir. Pascal Dupuis, conseiller technologique/technological advisor U. C. Louvain AC/ADRE : http://www.adre.ucl.ac.be/ Place de L'Université, 1; B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Tél. +32-10-47 92 33; Fax +32-10-47 48 30
