266251 - No proxy for: FireFox seems to skip LMHOSTS file for IP resolution

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 136789

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[mketair]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When entering a LAN hostname (defined in my local LMHOSTS file) in the URL bar,
Firefox doesn't find that server.
But works well with IE


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Edit LMHOSTS file, add IP/Hostname of an local host
2.Configure FireFox to skip proxy for your local range
3.Enter the hostname in the URL bar 
4.Generates Proxy error :Page Not Found...
5.Enter the IP in the URL bar
6.Server reached, page showned

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 2.Configure FireFox to skip proxy for your local range
You mean an IP range like 192.168/16?
> 3.Enter the hostname in the URL bar 
Aha!
> 4.Generates Proxy error :Page Not Found...
Why? Because of Bug 136789. IE does a DNS lookup before.

Please resolve it as duplicate of Bug 136789. 

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136789 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

V/dupe