Weird print behaviour in Firefox/Mozilla/Thunderbird and FreeBSD 6.0

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Tue Sep 6 07:39:01 PDT 2005


O. Hartmann wrote:
> I realize a weird printing behaviour of Thunderbird/Mozilla/Firefox. 
> Whenever I try to print a page the software gets stuck and it takes 
> several minutes before it come back to ask me for the printer. After 
> clicking on the print button it takes again several minutes before the 
> job gets printed.

Something is trying to perform a DNS lookup and timing out, most probably. 
Running a local caching-only nameserver like BIND might work around this.

-- 
-Chuck



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