[Tfug] More Questions on KDE

[Adrian]

On Tuesday 14 February 2006 22:15, Earl wrote:
> Sorry, that was really DUH!!!
> 
> I am running KUBUNTU 5.10. The firefox version is 1.0.7. I have 
connectivity. Konqueror is connecting and opening webpages with no problem. 
Firefox won't open anything.
> 
> Earl
> 
> -- Robert Hunter <bobjim.hunter at gmail.com> wrote:
> What distribution/version are you running?
> 
> Have you verified network connectivity?  ( i.e what exactly do you
> mean by "Konqueror works"? )
> 
> Maybe the output of strace will be helpful.  ( i.e. try launching
> firefox from a terminal with the following command ).
> 
> strace firefox 2>firefox.trace
> 

As opposed to a strace... a tcpdump when you open and try to go to a page in 
FF would probably be far more useful. It will show any traffic output by FF 
onto the network.

Let me take a wild guess... your on Qwest DSL right? They gave you a little 
white external DSL modem box right? The problem isn;t FF persay, it is the 
DSL modem Qwest gave you! In the default configuration, FF 1.0.6+ (I think, 
as well as several other apps) try to do an IPv6 DNS query for domains in 
addition to a IPv4 query... That little white DSL modem Qwest gave you barfs 
on the IPv6 and then always replies with a 1.0.0.0 address as the DNS 
response. FF then tries to go to 1.0.0.0, the address the Qwest box gave it, 
and never gets a response...

Adrian