I changed my Internet provider to At&t. I can not connect to the Internet with any Mozillia application and also, I am unable to do any onlne updates through Yast or zypper. I receive a system error when I try to do an online update. It doesn’t matter if I connect directly to the modem with the ethernet cable, or use a wireless router.
It is a Motorola modem.
Somethings that are odd: (unfortunately I have to run windows a small percentage of the time); and any Internet searches I do with Firefox and Thunderbird work fine. When I go to my Opensuse 11.3 32 bit Gnome side, Thunderbird doesn’t connect to the server, firefox mostly doesn’t connect to the server (some bookmarks work), konquerer doesn’t connect to the server at all; yet Opera, can do any kind of google search just as the windows side.
I’m not sure where to begin to diagnose the problem, since in the Motorola modem, there is little to configure. I have a DSL and an Internet connection, I can ping anything in a terminal and I receive the packets. I can go down the road to a cafe, and I do not have any of these issues. Where is my configuration wrong?
On 06/13/2011 09:06 PM, the Dude abides wrote:
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> I changed my Internet provider to At&t. I can not connect to the
> Internet with any Mozillia application and also, I am unable to do any
> onlne updates through Yast or zypper. I receive a system error when I
> try to do an online update. It doesn’t matter if I connect directly to
> the modem with the ethernet cable, or use a wireless router.
> It is a Motorola modem.
>
> Somethings that are odd: (unfortunately I have to run windows a small
> percentage of the time); and any Internet searches I do with Firefox and
> Thunderbird work fine. When I go to my Opensuse 11.3 32 bit Gnome side,
> Thunderbird doesn’t connect to the server, firefox mostly doesn’t
> connect to the server (some bookmarks work), konquerer doesn’t connect
> to the server at all; yet Opera, can do any kind of google search just
> as the windows side.
>
> I’m not sure where to begin to diagnose the problem, since in the
> Motorola modem, there is little to configure. I have a DSL and an
> Internet connection, I can ping anything in a terminal and I receive the
> packets. I can go down the road to a cafe, and I do not have any of
> these issues. Where is my configuration wrong?
>
>
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Firefox supports IPv6 by default, which may cause connection problems on certain systems. To disable IPv6 in Firefox:
In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter.
The about:config “This might void your warranty!” warning page may appear. Click I’ll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.
In the Filter field, type network.dns.disableIPv6.
In the list of preferences, double-click network.dns.disableIPv6 to set its value to true.
I’m able to update OpenSuse, and Firefox works properly.
Thunderbird still does not, it is having trouble connecting to the server. This is a great start though. Why would this setting have to be changed to begin with?
Many routers and dsl modems announce themselves as the DNS server, and provide a dns lookup forwarding service. Cheap routers and modems do that forwarding job very poorly, and they probably mangle IPv6 requests.
Why in the first place? Good question. A LAN trace will get you closer
to the truth but to be honest I do not fully understand it yet. I
believe, because Mozilla tries to write cross-platform software, that they
have their own resolver in software and as a result sometimes Firefox and
Thunderbird do things differently from other software on the machine (such
as trying to resolve AAAA records for sites vs. just A records). That’s
annoying, but may serve their greater purpose. Why the responses they
receive are not better handled… well, perhaps a bug. What is odd is
that this is only a problem for my machine on very certain networks (only
one found so far, and I hit a lot of networks all over) so I think it’s a
nasty combination of things. Anyway, “Just Do It” and once we’re all IPv6
enabled the problem will probably be gone. Otherwise, take a LAN trace
and post back once you’ve figured it out.
Good luck.
On 06/13/2011 10:06 PM, the Dude abides wrote:
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> Thank you for your responses:
>
> This worked from here ‘Firefox cannot load websites but other programs
> can | Troubleshooting | Firefox Help’ (http://tinyurl.com/3dpfgsz)
>
> I> IPv6
>>
>> Firefox supports IPv6 by default, which may cause connection problems
>> on certain systems. To disable IPv6 in Firefox:
>>
>> In the Location bar, type about:config and press Enter.
>> The about:config “This might void your warranty!” warning page may
>> appear. Click I’ll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the
>> about:config page.
>> In the Filter field, type network.dns.disableIPv6.
>> In the list of preferences, double-click network.dns.disableIPv6 to
>> set its value to true.
>
> I’m able to update OpenSuse, and Firefox works properly.
>
> Thunderbird still does not, it is having trouble connecting to the
> server. This is a great start though. Why would this setting have to be
> changed to begin with?
>
>
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