I can't browse the web or FTP with nautilus if I connect to the web after
Nautilus is started. I'm still using a dial-up modem and this is annoying
because I have Nautilus automatically start when I log in and after that I
connect to the internet at which point I have to restart Nautilus in order to
browse with it. I get a "Can't display location" error dialog when I try.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-01-12 09:37:20 ----

*** Bug 45583 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***



------- Additional Comments From mikef@praxis.etla.net 2001-01-12 13:32:49 ----

I have absolutely no idea why this might be....



------- Additional Comments From kfv101@psu.edu 2001-01-13 10:12:13 ----

Don't know if this helps, but evolution does the same thing. Perhaps this is a 
gnome-vfs thing - isn't that how both applications do their network queries?



------- Additional Comments From don@eazel.com 2001-01-14 22:21:02 ----

This is heinous and I would like to fix it for 1.0.  Putting on that milestone
until I can see how bad this is compared to some of our other mozilla bugs ...




------- Additional Comments From mikef@praxis.etla.net 2001-01-15 18:29:22 ----

kfv's description of the bug makes it sound like perhaps a problem with his
network configuration...esp if it happens to evolution too.

(kfv--AFAIK, evolution does not use gnome-vfs for most of its network activity,
so its probably something else.)




------- Additional Comments From kfv101@psu.edu 2001-01-17 18:14:21 ----

A little more poking around - This problem happens with galeon and gftp also,
however with a slight twist. If I start those apps up but don't try to go to a
web page or ftp site they will later work when I dial in. If I do try to go to a
web site before I have dialed in, then the applications will not work
afterwards. Old Netscape 4.7 does not exhibit any of these behaviors so I don't
think it is a setup problem for me. I only really notice this with nautilus
since I have it start at login to manage the desktop



------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2001-01-26 03:50:51 ----

I suspect it's a DNS issue. I've seen other apps have similar problems where
once a DNS lookup fails for lack of connection, they are scrod forever.

kfv: do you get this if you try to browse to sites by IP address?




------- Additional Comments From kfv101@psu.edu 2001-01-26 04:55:39 ----

Exactly right mjs. Both web and ftp work if I type in the ip address.



------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2001-01-30 16:24:00 ----

We think this might be fixable later, but since this DNS problem comes up for
many other apps, I don't think Nautilus has to do a better job than these other
apps for 1.0.




------- Additional Comments From kfv101@psu.edu 2001-03-08 16:37:39 ----

Okay, I just learned tonight that this IS a problem with my dial-up application.
I use xisp and it was doing something funny with /etc/resolve.conf. Putting in
the proper DNS entries has fixed the problem. I suspect then that this would be
a very uncommon problem and might not be worth fixing.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:51 -------