Re: ongoing mozilla problems

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, 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.
>
> 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.

I'm not running any dns cache and it is specific to ad servers I think.
In any case, I think Joe's option to disable IPv6 queries in mozilla is
good.

-Nate