RE: "Unknown Host" Update, more evidence

WJCarpenter> 5. Petition someone who is willing and able to do WJCarpenter> something about this in emacs source code. Granted, WJCarpenter> other apps don't have DNS hacks in them, but they WJCarpenter> don't run for months at a time either. Netscape does. In fact, Netscape in fact starts up a separate process to provide name service to the main browser process. My "ISP" (the University of Tsukuba) is incompetent at keeping their gateways and nameservers up when making configuration changes, so every few months I have a spate of "not found" or "can't connect" problems. XEmacs hangs until the !"#$% gethostby*() call times out; Netscape does not. I don't recommend doing anything like that, though. In the modern Web Netscape can be justified in doing it, since a single frame's worth of display can involve references to a dozen hosts; except for w3, xemacs doesn't do stuff like that. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 __________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ What are those two straight lines for? "Free software rules."