Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:51:00 +0100 From: Anders Gavare <gavare@gmail.com> To: gecko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: timeout instead of connection refused (firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.15) Message-ID: <1256925060.2179.17.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1256854389.2179.6.camel@localhost> References: <1256854389.2179.6.camel@localhost>
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Replying to myself: > Firefox behaves very strangely. When connecting to 127.0.0.1, I expect > an immediate Connection refused. That is where I route lots of ad/spam > hosts using /etc/hosts. Instead of refusing the connection, Firefox > waits forever. (I am assuming it will timeout, eventually.) Just in case someone else runs into this bug, and is looking for a temporary workaround: a hack/workaround to make Firefox behave normally again is to change all 127.0.0.1 entries in /etc/hosts that have to do with ad/spam host names to 127.0.0.2. (I.e. change everything except localhost.) (While telnet _immediately_ says Connection refused and Can't assign requested address, respectively, for 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2, Firefox differs widely in timeouts for the two different addresses.) Anders
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