143585 - Nameserver changes require restart of Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 64857

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Trammell Hudson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    rc1

My name server is assigned by dhcp and changes depending on which network I am
using.  The /etc/resolv.conf is correctly updated, but Mozilla rc1 and earlier
do not notice the change.  I have to restart the web user agent to have it use
the new name server.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Mozilla
2. Change networks so that the old nameserver is no longer reachable.
3. Select a new name server (in /etc/resolv.conf)
4. Notice that Mozilla can't resolve any names.


Actual Results:  "www.slashdot.org not found"

Expected Results:  "News for Nerds.  Stuff that matters."

Earlier versions of Mozilla had the same problem.  Netscape and lynx do notice
the new nameserver.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

this is a known issue

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64857 ***

Comment 2

[benc]

This was fixed very recently. Please try RC2.