I have exactly the same problem. I believe Netscape tries to resolve the
ip-addresses for the News server so you might want to try putting them in your
/etc/hosts file (although I don't think Netscape even cares looking at these
files). I didn't try it myself yet (most of the time when I use my PC it's to
check my mail anyway :-).
Nico
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> What's the best way to set up DNS if you have an ethernet LAN at home
> (just using host file) and use PPP to get to the internet through an ISP
> occasionally? Currently, if I'm not connected via PPP, Netscape will
> hang if I try to use it to view downloaded email or look at an HTML
> document. In nsswitch.conf I have:
>
> hosts: files dns
>
> and have my ISP's two DNS servers in
> /etc/resolv.conf.
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