ongoing mozilla problems

[Eric Anderson]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 00:58, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>Any page that includes links to imgs on other pages hangs while loading.
>>I have a feeling it's the resolver since pages all on one site work fine.
>>I've rebuilt world and kernel as of Sunday Mar. 7 at 7 pm.  I've rebuilt
>>mozilla using portupgrade.  Is there anything else I can do?
> 
> 
> At least one user has reported that an old IPv6-related resolver bug has
> resurfaced in 1.6-based browsers.  If you have IPv6 in your kernel, you
> might try removing it temporarily (if you can) to see if this helps
> matters.  Other users have reported similar hangs in the past when
> trying to load images off of ad caching servers.  If one particular
> server is giving you a hard time, add it to /etc/hosts, and see if the
> problem improves.

It's definitely an ipv6 issue.  I think Mozilla is looking for the right 
ipv6 records on DNS servers (mostly ad sites) that don't support it, and 
it hangs waiting for a reply.  Once it's past the reply (1 minute, 2 
minutes?), it's fast.

I disabled ipv6 in my kernel, and all seems happy.  Well, except a few 
things, but mostly everything is better.

Eric


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Eric Anderson     Sr. Systems Administrator    Centaur Technology
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