[Conkeror] [BUG] Resolving doesn't work in xulrunner/conkeror but everything else works

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard]

"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
> <jeremy at jeremyms.com> wrote:
>> "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I installed xulrunner-1.9.0.2pre.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2 from the
>>> nightly builds on Ubuntu Hardy and ran conkeror under it. accessing
>>> websites as IP addresses works but the resolver in xulrunner behaves
>>> as though DNS isn't working on the machine ("Address not found"). DNS
>>> works normally for everything else (dig, ping, firefox, etc.).
>> 
>>> Why would xulrunner not be picking up the DNS settings in
>>> /etc/resolv.conf? This has also happened with other xulrunner builds
>>> from ~2 weeks and ~1 month ago on the same machine.
>> 
>> You could try using the Firefox xulrunner using:
>> 
>> firefox -app /path/to/conkeror/application.ini

> The firefox on that system isn't of the xulrunner kind, and in any
> case that wouldn't solve the  problem of the resolver in the xulrunner
> in nightlies having a broken resolver on that system.

If you have the normal Firefox 3, then the syntax I suggested should
work.

You could try and see if Firefox nightlies have the same problem.
Possibly you could also try to figure out exactly the date on which it
stopped working.

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard