Closed Bug 212186 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Mozilla unusable if mail server chamges IP address

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking, defect)

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

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 162871

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

(Keywords: hang)

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 If the named mailserver changes its IP address, mozilla does not try to resolve it again which would work but uses a cached version of the DNS lookup which causes it to constantly return errors until you kill the mozilla process. This is an issue for people who run their own mailserver off a dynamic dns account but keep the same hostname through dyndns (or other service) and their lease renews with a different IP address (I was using IMAP). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open mail, access account 2. have mailserver change ip addresses 3. try to access mail again Actual Results: mozilla return "not found" errors regarding the mailserver Expected Results: instead of relying on a cached version of the DNS it should have done a fresh lookup which would have resolved successfully
does mozilla actually "crash" ?
Summary: crash if mail server chamges IP address → crash if mail server chamges IP address
Severity: major → critical
Keywords: crash
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162871 ***
Severity: critical → major
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Keywords: crash → hang
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Summary: crash if mail server chamges IP address → Mozilla unusable if mail server chamges IP address
VERIFIED/dupe.
QA Contact: gchan → benc
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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