On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Brian de Alwis wrote:

> Hello everybody.  I'm seeing some strange DNS resolving behaviour
> with firefox, and have run out of leads.
>
> At home I get to freeride off an open wireless connection.  But
> it's subject to frequent bouts of interference and so the signal
> fades in and out over the course of a day.
>
> I've found that Firefox will start to exhibit rather strange DNS
> lookup behaviour under this situation, where hostname lookups take
> extraordinarily long periods of time to resolve -- and sometimes
> are never resolved.  But utilities like ping are able to resolve
> the name relatively quickly.  This behaviour disappears if I quit
> and restart firefox, but it will reappear if I stop using it for
> a bit.  Replacing the hostnames with the IP addresses works fine.
>
> These problems don't occur when I'm at the university, where I'm
> behind a reliable fat pipe.
>
> Does this ring any bells with anybody?

 	No, but in case it helps, a workaround might be to run a caching
 	nameserver on your machine locally and point firefox at that...

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