Re: Web Browsers Report being "Unable to Connect" after Wi-Fi Connection Drop Period

[Ricardo Wurmus]

"Wamm K. D." <jaft.r@outlook.com> writes:

> The consequence is that I've noticed a particular behavior relatively
> frequently: when the connection drops, the browser I'm using will get
> stuck thinking that it cannot connect to the internet once the internet
> connection comes back, sometimes (especially if I tried to load a page
> while the internet connection was down). Trying to load any other page
> results in the "Unable to Connect" (or equivalent) page.

When this happens again, please visit “about:networking#dns” and clear
the DNS cache.  Maybe this helps.

On Guix System there’s also nscd, which has its own cache.  It’s
possible that a lookup failure is cached there as well.  To clear the
nscd cache use “sudo herd invalidate nscd”.

-- 
Ricardo