konqueror cannot resolve mozilla.com

[ralphb]

Starting with Kubuntu 8.10, konqueror cannot connect to mozilla.com:

The requested operation could not be completed
Unknown Host
Details of the Request:
URL: http://www.mozilla.com
Protocol: http
Date and Time: Thursday 13 November 2008 20:33
Additional Information: www.mozilla.com: Unknown error
Description:
An unknown host error indicates that the server with the requested name, www.mozilla.com, could not be located on the Internet.

I can connect to other sites, however, such as kubuntu.org or launchpad.net. And note that in general the network is working fine, as well:

ralph@tomcat:~$ ping www.mozilla.com
PING www-mozilla-com.glb.mozilla.com (63.245.213.13) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from static-mozcom.nllb02.nl.mozilla.com (63.245.213.13): icmp_seq=1 ttl=243 time=41.4 ms
64 bytes from static-mozcom.nllb02.nl.mozilla.com (63.245.213.13): icmp_seq=2 ttl=243 time=42.8 ms
...

I'm on a private network 192.168.99.0/8, with my router 192.168.99.1 serving as nameserver. In my parallel installation of Kubuntu 8.04 on the same machine (using the same hardware), konqueror doesn't have these kinds of issues either.

[ralphb (dev-endlos)]

OK, update --

The scenario above occurs when entering "www.mozilla.com" in the address bar, without the protocol specification. According to the error message, the protocol defaults to http.

Entering "http://www.mozilla.com" DOES work, however. Entering "https://www.mozilla.com" produces a similar error message as above, but explicitly stating "protocol: https".

So this is actually two bugs in one.

[Jonathan Jesse (jjesse)]

Good afternoon,

Working on triaging some bugs here. Are you still having problems with resolving mozilla.com thru konqueror? sre you still having problems with this? I have no problems browsing the web with Konqueror on Kubuntu 8.10.
Just wanted to follow up on this.

Jonathan

[ralphb (dev-endlos)]

Yes, the issue persists.

I think this might be in part caused by my router, similarly to the issue for Safari on Mac OS X currently being reported (see http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Fritz-Box-bremst-Mac--/meldung/121555 for an example in German).

In this case this would make this bug a duplicate of http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162600.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Fixed in KDE 4.2.