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Posted by Duane Arnold on April 23, 2006, 12:38 pm
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> Duane Arnold > wrote:
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>> MKR wrote:
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>>> I have a problem with ZoneAlarm configuration. My computer runs a
>>> rebranded version of ZoneAlarm behind a router. My computer is
>>> configured to go into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. When
>>> it comes out of sleep mode, programs on the computer will generally
>>> be unable to access the Internet.
>>
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>>> However, I would still be able visit recently-visited websites from
>>> my browser.
>>
>>
>> That's due to the pages for a given site you have visited recently
>> were cached on the computer so the browser went there and got the
>> pages. Had you went to a Web site, that you had not visited recently,
>> you would have gotten *page not found".
>
>
> The ability to access recently-access website is not an illusion caused
> by cached pages. I can get *fresh* content from those sites. It looks to
> me like a DNS lookup problem -- the recently visited websites still have
> the results of the previous lookups cached somewhere, so either no new
> DNS queries are generated or the new DNS queries are answered with
> cached answers somewhere (I don't have a good guess as to where that
> might be though).
Well ping something with the ping command by IP. You don't have to
look-up anything via DNS. Can you do it when the machine comes out of
that wake-up mode?
If ZA is the problem, get rid of it and find something else.
Duane :)
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