Subject: Re: Suboptimal DNS lookup in Firefox/Mozilla on lossy net connections?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/03/2006 15:58:35
In article <44D1ED7D.6010001@lundman.net>,
Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net> wrote:
>
>Not sure how much code Firefox and Mozilla share these days, but there are a
>load of DNS issues when compiling Mozilla. It uses getaddrinfo by default on
>NetBSD, and NetBSD's getaddrinfo() is broken. Will very often stall forever and
>what not.
>
>When I compile Mozilla I have to make sure nsprpub/pr/include/md/_netbsd.h to
>not have _PR_HAVE_GETADDRINFO.
>
>Then it will work better, but not great. If you have too many simultaneous
>lookups it can go bad. Probably has the alternative to getaddrinfo() is not
>thread safe.
>
>Just a thought if you want to try it.
Is that in 3.0 or current?
christos