Re: ongoing mozilla problems

From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus_at_marcuscom.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:33:30 -0500
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:28, Chris Shenton wrote:
> 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.  

Works fine for me without IPv6 on -CURRENT.

> 
> 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.

It's definitely Mozilla-specific.  There is a workaround in 1.7b where
you can set the network.dns.disableIPv6 pref to false, and Mozilla won't
try IPv6 even if it is enabled in the kernel.

Joe

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