Re: weird firefox behaviour

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> Recently I've updated from 5.99.10 to 5.99.11; I think that was the
> point that firefox (3.0.8 at that point; 3.0.9 has the same behaviour)
> stopped reacting to some webpages.
>
> In particular, sadly, this includes "www.netbsd.org" and
> "www.freebsd.org", not "www.openbsd.org". When I type that name into
> the address bar, it says "Connecting to www.netbsd.org" in the status
> bar for a _very_ short time, then says "Done" but doesn't display
> anything. If I was at a different webpage before I typed the address,
> it is still shown (the address bar contains the address I typed
> though).
>
> # host www.netbsd.org
> www.netbsd.org has address 204.152.190.12
> www.netbsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:3:7:2e0:81ff:fe52:9a6b
> www.netbsd.org mail is handled by 10 mail.netbsd.org.
> # host www.freebsd.org
> www.freebsd.org has address 69.147.83.33
> www.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:fff6::21
> www.freebsd.org mail is handled by 0 .
> # host www.openbsd.org
> www.openbsd.org has address 129.128.5.191
>
> I wonder if the reason has something to do with IPv6?
> And/or perhaps the bind update?
>
> I haven't configured IPv6 here.

I have seen something like this with dillo in the past - if the kernel  
had IPv6 support and you tried to connect to something that has an  
IPv6 address dillo wouldn't ever fall back to IPv4. Since I didn't  
need IPv6 I got around it by not having IPv6 support in the kernel.

have fun
Michael

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