strange behaviour of firefox

[Rick Stevens]

On 08/10/2011 02:18 PM, François Patte wrote:
> Le 10/08/2011 04:33, Genes MailLists a écrit :
>> On 08/09/2011 07:46 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> So, do you have a suggestion? Or should we wait to see whether
>>> François has already solved the problem?
>>>
> 
> 
>>   Yeh .. I suggest the following:
> 
> 
>>  (i) In a terminal window, type
> 
>>      host localhost
> 
>>      Tell us what it returns.
> 
>>       Then do:
> 
>>  (ii) host 127.0.0.1
> 
>>      Tell us what it returns.
> 
> Well! these were good suggestions: host localhost returned:
> 
> localhost.home has address 127.0.0.1
> Host localhost.home not found: 4(NOTIMP)
> 
> So, my orange box to the Internet add  .home as domain and I have to enter
> 
> http://localhost.home:901
> 
> if I want to connect to swat. This was not the behaviour before (before
> I install f14 and FF 3.6.18)!
> 
> What remains a mystery is why cups accepts  to answer with
> http://localhost:631 but with http://localhost.home:631 I get: 400
> Requête incorrecte

Have a look at your /etc/resolv.conf and make sure it's not adding a
domain to your lookups via a "search home" or somesuch.
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