Re: NetSurf on Virtual Acorn

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 09:26:25AM +0000, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
> On 26 Jan at 1:04, "Alan & Sally" <jared.r@xtra.co.nz> wrote:
> > The problem is that all the recent versions don't connect to the
> > internet. The message I get is "Resolving timed out after 30000
> > milliseconds." The settings are the same ones that 2.9 is using, so I
> > am at a loss with what to do. Has any one got a fix for this?
>
> I have the same problem with RISC OS 6.2 on a Mac OS 10.8.2. My guess
> is that the modules are not up to date but I have yet to look into it.

I seem to recall that at least at some point that there was an issue
with VARPC configuring networking correctly, specifically the resolver.
NetSurf reads the resolver configuration at start up and uses its own
internal DNS code rather than using the OS's provided one. If VA does
not set this variable promptly enough (or it gets unset somehow) then
NetSurf may struggle to resolve.

Are you launching NetSurf at boot? If so, try launching it after boot?

I don't recall the names of the environment variables involved to ask
you to see what they're set to, sorry.

B.