Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:15:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Andriy Gapon <agapon@excite.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/41209: www/mozilla browser serializes DNS lookups Message-ID: <200207312015.g6VKFUM1099836@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 41209
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: www/mozilla browser serializes DNS lookups
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 31 13:20:04 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Andriy Gapon
>Release: FreeBSD 4.6
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD edge.foundation.invalid 4.6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 21 15:07:38 EDT 2002 avg@edge.icyb.net:/sys-devel/obj/sys-devel/src/sys/EDGE i386
>Description:
mozilla serializes DNS lookups, so that if you try open URL with name/nameserver that has very slow DNS response, mozilla is blocked until DNS reply received or timeout happens.
This problem is described in 2 (at least) mozilla PRs, one of them being FreeBSD-specific:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159618
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213
The only reason I'm filing this as a FreeBSD ports PR is because this problem is quite annoying and it takes mozilla team too long to fix it despite a patch submitted to them.
>How-To-Repeat:
From http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159618
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.take FreeBSD mozilla and open 2 windows
2.open www.nowhere.org in one window, then www.mozilla.org in the other
Actual Results: "mozilla" window is blocked resolving www.mozilla.org until nowhere.org request times out
Expected Results: there shouldn't be any interferences between DNS lookups in different windows
>Fix:
there's a proposed patch in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213
and in addition to that configure in nsprpub/ should be changed to define
_PR_HAVE_THREADSAFE_GETHOST
for FreeBSD.
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