Hi from Australia on our yearly jaunt.

I'm posting here because I posted on the VA mailing list about a spurious
and very strange file that had appeared in the partition alongside my VA directory. I've dealt with that now by quarantining it then removing it. Nothing has fallen over.

Virtual Acorn Adjust 4.39 Windows 10 Acer netbook. W10.

For some reason I cannot fathom, Netsurf reads HTML file OK but suddenly
cannot get out to the wide world. Error - Could not resolve hostname.

I've never had to do anything in Configure.Network. As stated in the VA
manual, it just worked out of the box. What could have changed?
Netfetch and Pluto work OK so they can communicate with Orpheus correctly.

Configure.Network.Resolver has Host name "standalone" which I presume has always been there.

In case of corruption, I can't download a fresh copy of Netsurf from RISC
OS as I can't get out. Catch 22.

Bah! Humbug! / Merry Christmas (Delete as applicable).

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Chris

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In article <[email protected]>, Chris Newman
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Hi from Australia on our yearly jaunt.

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For some reason I cannot fathom, Netsurf reads HTML file OK but
suddenly cannot get out to the wide world. Error - Could not resolve hostname.

I may have answered my own question.
It struck me that there are two flavours of Netsurf for different
set-ups. I searched and found an old copy which does work. I guess I've downloaded the wrong one at the last update I did.
Anyone know which set of builds I should be using on VA 4.39?

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Chris

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In message <[email protected]>
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi from Australia on our yearly jaunt.

I'm posting here because I posted on the VA mailing list about a spurious
and very strange file that had appeared in the partition alongside my VA directory. I've dealt with that now by quarantining it then removing it. Nothing has fallen over.

Virtual Acorn Adjust 4.39 Windows 10 Acer netbook. W10.

For some reason I cannot fathom, Netsurf reads HTML file OK but suddenly cannot get out to the wide world. Error - Could not resolve hostname.

Remember, The VA side has nothing to do with your connection to the
internet, it is all under the control of your W10 configuration. So the
W10 side could not resolve the hostname, might just have been a temporary glitch with DNS.

I've never had to do anything in Configure.Network. As stated in the VA manual, it just worked out of the box. What could have changed?
Netfetch and Pluto work OK so they can communicate with Orpheus correctly.

[snip]



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Chris Hughes

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