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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Wamm K. D." <jaft.r@outlook.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Web Browsers Report being "Unable to Connect" after Wi-Fi Connection Drop Period
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 23:09:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a6b8hs46.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BY5PR07MB7029196C0867F1BD403DDAA999D49@BY5PR07MB7029.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>


"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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-23 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-23 19:34 Web Browsers Report being "Unable to Connect" after Wi-Fi Connection Drop Period Wamm K. D.
2022-05-23 20:04 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2022-05-23 20:07 ` raingloom
2022-05-23 21:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2022-05-23 21:45   ` raingloom
2022-05-24  5:49     ` Wamm K. D.

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