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Date:      08 Jul 2002 16:10:14 -0700
From:      Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Stacey Roberts <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com>, FreeBSD-Gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla's so slow!
Message-ID:  <1026169815.60775.10.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
In-Reply-To: <20020708100812.E1306-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
References:  <20020708100812.E1306-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>

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On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 10:10, Philip Hallstrom wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:40:03AM +0100, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > > For the last few weeks., I've noticed that it takes *ages* at the
> > > "resolving host www.targetsite.whatever" before returning the requested
> > > page., if at all.,
> >
> > Sounds like a DNS problem. How does your /etc/resolv.conf look like?
> > And do you have the same "timeout" problems when telnetting to other
> > servers?
> 
> I have a similar problem... not as bad as this other fellows, but still
> quite noticable.  And it's not a DNS thing... I can type in a url, click
> go, watch it while it "resolves..." and in the meantime open up an xterm
> and ping that server, nslookup it, telnet to it, etc... instantly... and
> even then mozilla still waits and waits and waits...

This is a known bug in mozilla 1.0.  It is currently on the list of bugs
to be fixed in 1.1.  If you read the mozilla status reports you can
sometimes dig these facts out.  Suffice to say that there is a problem
with how moz deals with the resolver api.

> it was really bad with .96 (I think), but is quite a bit better with 1.0,
> but still definitely there.
> 
> -p
> 
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