An Apology

A while back, I posted about how I was getting a lot of problems on Firefox 1.5 with it being unable to find servers the first time round. It was bloody annoying, and making me head towards disliking FF1.5.

However, I was mistaken. It wasn’t Firefox’s fault at all. It turns out that the weekend before I installed 1.5, we had a contractor in the office setting up a couple of servers. In the process, he broke the network a bit, and utterly chiffed the DNS settings on the network.

For the non-geeky : DNS settings are the bit that translate www.website.com to its true address (say, 182.219.201.87) – which means you don’t need to remember a string of numbers, just www.website.com . If the DNS settings are chiffed, then you don’t get to see websites.

We’ve now fixed the problem, DNS is working OK, and Firefox finds websites first time.

So I’d like to apologise for being pissed off with a bit of software that was working just fine – it was a problem due to something else entirely.