[Novalug] internet name is corrupted during web browsing

Walt Smith waltechmail@yahoo.com
Thu Mar 21 23:37:56 EDT 2013



For several years, using several different linux versions
on dialup, I get a name corruption: the Site I want is 
concatenated onto y own ISP's name using FF browser.
I usually dial, start FF browsing, and have good web page D/L's
and the corruption can happen at any time.

tcpdump on ppp0:


23:28:44.557323 IP 69.72.61.43.48724 > 64.136.173.4.domain: 61871+ A? newsvote.bbc.co.uk.tenex.org. (46)
23:28:44.660484 IP 69.72.61.43.39654 > 64.136.164.66.domain: 56026+ PTR? 43.61.72.69.in-addr.arpa. (42)

notice how ...bbc,co.uk is appended to tenex.org and hence the 
browsing no longer works.

Anyone have an idea what configuration might be wrong ?
I'd find it hard to believe the ppp stack would be "bad" after
all these years.  Awhile back, I asked if there was a way to
restart pppd without hanging up the modem, but no joy.

It works fine if I hangup and redial,
but can go bad at any time.
I'm not sure, but the problem may occur when
several tabs are "doing stuff" simultaneously.


Walt.........

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