176323 - Conn: dialup dialog appears for non-existent domains

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 160846

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Terry Carroll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1

When entering a domain name that  does not exist (e.g.,
http://www.no-such-domain.com), or referencing it via a SRC= tag on a web site
(maybe a domain that no longer exists), Mozilla generates the following dialog,
even if the user is already connected to the Internet:

 Network Connections

  You (or a program) have requested information from 
  www.no-such-domain.com.  Which connection to you want to use?

  (followed by a list of configured ISPs)

This is the case even when the user is already connected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Web Location
2. enter "http://www.no-such-domain.com"
3. wait for error.

Actual Results:  
Dialog as described.

Expected Results:  
Error message along the lines of "domain www.no-such-domain.com" not found" or
"Mozilla could not find www.no-such-domain"

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

win2k build 20021016 and linux 20021020 :
I get the error message : 
"no-such.domain could not be found.Please check the name and try again"

>Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020512 Netscape/7.0b1
-> invalid

This is no place to report Netscape bugs. We accept only bug reports from
mozilla.org builds.

Comment 2

[Tom Everingham]

actually this works in newer netscapes too but I agree this is invalid

Comment 3

[Terry Carroll]

I am reporting a Mozilla bug, not a Netscape bug.  This is Mozilla 1.2b, build
20021016.

User agent: 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

If the useragent was automatically generated before, it was probably a spoofed
user agent string, to circumvent a Hotmail bug.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This exact problem is already reported.

Comment 5

[John Unruh]

Works for me with the 10/24 mozilla build. (www.no-such.domain.com could not be 
fond. Please check the name and try again.) Reporter, can you try a clean 
install, delete the mozilla directory before reinstalling?

Comment 6

[Terry Carroll]

Thanks you for your comments.  This is a clean install.

My configuration is behind a router, which is connected to DSL.  I wonder if 
Mozilla for some reason believes that there is no Internet connection and wants
to start one?

I suggest that a simple "works for me" in a different environment really doesn't
resolve the bug.

Comment 4 mentions that this bug report is a duplicate of another.  What bug is
it a duplicate of?  I could not find the dupe.

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

i have exactly the same configuration (and this is wfm):
My configuration is behind a router, which is connected to DSL.

What is your setting in :
Control Panel/Internet/connections/ ?
Have you tried a installtion in a complete empty directory and a new profile ?

Comment 8

[benc]

This might be related to NT autodial.

Take a look at:
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/autodial.html

Comment 9

[benc]

+clean-report.

smeredith: do you need more info to address this problem report?

Comment 10

[Steve Meredith (gone)]

This is functioning as designed. It's a dupe of bug 160846. 

If you don't want this to happen, use the Windows control panel to turn autodial
off.

See the document mentioned in comment #8 for full details.

Comment 11

[benc]

per bug 181135: all bugs owned by previous default owner that were not futured
are being reassigned to default owner.

Comment 12

[Jason M. Abels]

also see bug 169841

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160846 ***