Hi everybody, I just installed Sarge on my trusty old iMac G3 500Mhz (slot-loading). I had a bit of trouble installing packages at the end -- the installer didn't install a bunch of things I asked for because of broken dependencies. No big deal, I just went ahead and installed things (using apt-get and ftp.us.debian.org) myself.
However, when I try to browse the web (or use anything else that relies on DNS), DNS fails to resolve and I get timeout errors. I can hit reload till the cows come home, and I'll get the same error. Strangely enough, though, if I ping the site first, my browser resolves the dns immediately and the site loads almost instantly. However, within a few minutes, I have to ping the site again or I get more timeout errors. This makes me think that I may have forgotten to install a relevant package, since the trouble seems to becaused by the way some programs (konqueror, gaim, etc) try to access dns information as opposed to others (ping, traceroute) that do work. But any suggestions would be appreciated. I realize this might be a bit off-topic on this list, but the nature of the problem makes searching for a solution on the web difficult. Thanks! Alex
