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Re: Web Browsers Report being "Unable to Connect" after Wi-Fi Connection
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Web Browsers Report being "Unable to Connect" after Wi-Fi Connection Drop Period |
Date: |
Mon, 23 May 2022 23:09:35 +0200 |
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mu4e 1.6.10; emacs 28.0.50 |
"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