Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:06:23 -0500 From: Dan Rue <drue@therub.org> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow loading websites Message-ID: <20040423190623.GA5777@therub.org> In-Reply-To: <E2932E04-9551-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <1082741893.26067.18.camel@Desolation> <E2932E04-9551-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:13:13PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Apr 23, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Jammet wrote: > >When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that > >involves ads on the page some where, about 99% of the time it can take > >upwards of 2-3 minutes to load the entire page. [ ... ] > >I guess my main question is, anyone ever seen this, if so ever get it > >fixed? > > Most probably, you are running into delays because your browser queries > websites for an IPv6 address before trying an IPv4 address. > Reportedly, many ad-sites use broken nameservers which botch IPv6 > queries, causing the delay. The problem lies on their end, not yours, > but disabling IPv6 or using a proxy server like Squid will probably > remove the delays. Most of that is true. However, I found it to be a problem with firefox specifically - in that firefox waits for the 75 second timeout. Forced me to switch to opera :) It looks like it will be fixed in the next version of mozilla, though: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68796 The quickest workaround is to add ::0 ad.doubleclick.com ::0 ad.doubleclick.net to /etc/hosts (not a bad thing to keep in there, really). hth, dan
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