[wellylug] simple firefox question

[Nigel Roberts]

What FQDM should wombat resolve to? It's not a *shudder* nebios name
is it?

I suggest you put the domain involved (and other domains that you use)
in your resolv.conf.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 at 17:42:35 +1300, Mark Signal wrote:

> It did has something like that so I "#" it out and now doesn't append .nz
> It now has a new trick -  If I enter http://wombat it tries to resolve
> wombat.com *$#@#^%'ing thing
> 
> Is there a version of explorer 6 that runs on Linux? :)
> 
> thanks for the suggestion
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz]On Behalf Of Pete Black
> Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:33 a.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] simple firefox question
> 
> 
> your resolv.conf doesnt have a 'search .nz' line or similar in it by any
> chance does it?
> 
> >it was set at true so I changed it  but it doesn't seem to fix the problem
> >
> >many thanks anyway
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> >[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz]On Behalf Of Darryl
> >Hamilton
> >Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2004 9:51 a.m.
> >To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> >Subject: Re: [wellylug] simple firefox question
> >
> >
> >Mark Signal wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I am about to head butt my screen
> >>
> >>firefox insists on adding .nz extensions to every address that doesn't
> >>already have a country extension. It means I cant easily browse webservers
> >>within my local network.
> >>
> >>any ideas.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I think this is the "Internet Keywords" option (and yes, it annoys me
> >too). To turn it off, go to about:config in firefox, type keyword into
> >the box at the top (it's a filter) and double-click on keyword.enabled
> >so that it is set to false.
> >
> >If it's already at false, then I don't know what is going on, but since
> >it's been false for me, I haven't had a problem with the url guessing.
> >
> >Darryl.
> >
> >
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