Closed Bug 169841 Opened 23 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Conn: tries to auto-dial even though I have an ethernet connection

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: stephen.moehle, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Keywords: helpwanted, Whiteboard: [necko-would-take])

I am using Mozilla on a laptop running Windows XP. The laptop has both a modem and an ethernet connection to my cable modem. Ever since I installed SP1 about 3 days ago, Mozilla causes the auto-dial dialog to come up whenever it cannot contact a host due to a bad URL, the host being down or just slow, or whatever. The problem is that I am getting this dialog even though I am connect directly by ethernet to my broadband connection. In the Internet Properties control panel applet, I have set "Dial whenever a network connection is not present" under "Dial-up ... settings". Under LAN settings, I have "Automatically detect settings" checked. To reproduce: 1) Enter an nonexistent URL into the Location bar (or whatever that edit control-like thing at the top of the browser window is). I used www.ggggggggg.com. 2) Mozilla spins for a while. 3) Auto-dial dialog comes up. Cancel the dialog. 4) Get the Mozilla message "The connection was refused when attempting to contact <blah>." Since I am directly connected to the Internet through the ethenet connection, I would never expect to get the auto-dial dialog. Indeed, if I try the same thing using IE6, I do not get the dialog. IE6 goes straight to telling it could not find the URL. Tested with Mozilla trunk 2002-09-18-08 on Windows XP SP1.
Summary: Mozilla tries to auto-dial even though I have an ethernet connection → Conn: tries to auto-dial even though I have an ethernet connection
+clean report: if all these bugs have the same cause, can we respond in one bug and mark the rest as dupes?
Keywords: clean-report
per bug 181135: all bugs owned by previous default owner that were not futured are being reassigned to default owner.
Assignee: new-network-bugs → dougt
Reporter: can you reproduce this in a recent nightly? There is a setting now for auto-dial. Make sure it's off.
*** Bug 199098 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 192450 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 221135 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 204886 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
a workaround is lister here: http://www.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/autodial.html type about:config in address bar and... "Users can bypass the feature altogether by setting the pref network.autodial-helper.enabled to false."
too many dupes to ignore this, -> NEW
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
*** Bug 228363 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 226106 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 196276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 247649 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
-> me (i don't think dougt is planning on working on this, and even though i am not planning on working on this, i'd like to keep track of this one. helpwanted.)
Assignee: dougt → darin
Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: --- → Future
*** Bug 220988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 257467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Since we still get dupes on this, I guess I should ask: Should we change the default value of the pref back?
*** Bug 258335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 272409 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 267053 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Whats just amazed me is that I browsed a URL that required authentication, it asked me for authentication as expected and then threw the redial error 797!
Assignee: darin → nobody
QA Contact: benc → networking
Target Milestone: Future → ---
This affects people on dialup also, I'm on dialup and it always ask me to dial even though im dialed up, happens on any web page, this doesn't do this in firefox 3.0 but it does do this on the latest firefox 3.1 nightlies i think since b2pre, so now i have to disable the pref and then firefox don't ask me to dial up when im NOT online. That makes me have to do several more steps to get online, if this was fixed then i could simply launch firefox then click dial when firefox brings up the dialog, Should this be a separate bug?
No Derek, I've probably already done this for you. :) See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169841 . Oddly enough, this bug report is a whopping 6 (!) years old ...
Ouch. Back to cut-n-paste school for me. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461525
Yup, 6 years old, yet it still pops up. I hit it in 3.0 just a couple of days ago and I discovered that the fix, to turn off the autodial config entry, was for some reason not set in this version. After resetting that variable, I haven't seen the bug since. But I am truly amazed this bug could live on this many years.
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]
Depends on: 1236969
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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