Re: ongoing mozilla problems

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.
> > 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.

I disabled IPv6 and it appears to be working fine again.

-Nate