ongoing mozilla problems

[Chris Shenton]

Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> writes:

> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, 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.
>>
>> 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. 
>
> I disabled IPv6 and it appears to be working fine again.

I noticed this on my home 5.2-CURRENT systems with Mozilla-1.6.  When
I just upgraded my work's 4.9-STABLE system with Moz-1.6 via
portupgrade and now I see it there too.

At home I can't disable IPv6 on CURRENT as X11R6-4.3.99.12 seems to
need it to work.  

On both systems, I am running DJBDNS's "dnscache".  When I see Mozilla
hang trying to resolve (something like ad.doubleclick.net) I can
immediately resolve it from a shell with "dnsip ad.doubleclick.net".
So it definitely seems something mozilla specific.