Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:33:30 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Chris Shenton <chris@Shenton.Org> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Subject: Re: ongoing mozilla problems Message-ID: <1080761610.889.28.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <8665ckq0iy.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org> References: <20040308215647.W51049@root.org> <1078812119.47417.10.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <8665ckq0iy.fsf@PECTOPAH.shenton.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 14:28, Chris Shenton wrote: > Nate Lawson <nate@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. Works fine for me without IPv6 on -CURRENT. > > 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. It's definitely Mozilla-specific. There is a workaround in 1.7b where you can set the network.dns.disableIPv6 pref to false, and Mozilla won't try IPv6 even if it is enabled in the kernel. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAax0Kb2iPiv4Uz4cRAuTCAJ9NTTL7zjMpsYy+oozSCMd0q0PZXgCeKEC7 Z0fMVDRGVyPvTRBGtybZBqs= =/kX9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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