full-disclosure - Wierd firefox symptom

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Date: Tue Jun  7 17:21:53 2005
From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller)
Subject: Wierd firefox symptom

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Yo Daniel!

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Daniel H. Renner wrote:

> Upon return, when she tries to go to her specified homepage, it instead
> tries to access the hotel's (I'm assuming here) proxy or autorization
> server - no, no proxy settings set.

The hotel DHCP probably over wrote your hosts or DNS resolver file.  On
Slackware that would be /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf

RGDS
GARY
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Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Blvd, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701
	gem@...lim.com  Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676

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