[OU] After DNS (or related) changes, opera thinks pages are unavailable, konqueror and mozilla work fine (?)

[Randy Kramer]

Rolf (and all),

Thanks for the reply!  Some comments or additions below:

On Tuesday 06 May 2008 03:01 am, ek-orch wrote:
> Sounds like the Mandriva is trying to "simplify" the 127.0.0.1-handling?

Possibly, but note that I've also seen a report that indicates the same thing 
may be happening in *buntu.

> Some kind of misdirected database thinking, like "why spend place storing
> all those instances of 127.0.0.1 when one would suffice". Perhaps the other
> browsers recognize that simplification.
> 
> If I'm right, start complaining - that might put the problem on somebody's
> to-do-RSN-list. :)

Well, first I wanted to document what I found.  I have sent the same post to a 
Mandriva list and followed it up asking if a change should be made to the 
Mandriva behavior (if it hasn't already been changed).

Also, since this appears not to be unique to Mandriva (I've seen reports 
hinting that *buntu does the same thing), I'm wondering if there is a basic 
*nix utility that does that rewriting / mangling of the /etc/hosts file.

Also, in the original post I forgot to mention that the main resource that 
helped me recognize the problem / solution was "Opera browser issues" on the 
page:

http://tech.boradev.com/

Randy Kramer