On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:46:35 +0900, Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
wrote:

> 
> 
> Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > On Aug 4, 11:03am, lundman@lundman.net (Jorgen Lundman) wrote:
> > -- Subject: Re: Suboptimal DNS lookup in Firefox/Mozilla on lossy net connect
> > 
> > | Perhaps the Mozilla sources just need a timer wrapper around the function, but 
> > | it is near impossible to use Mozilla when, frequently, the getaddrinfo() 
> > | function would never return.
> > | 
> > | I'm not asking anyone to believe me, just thought I'd offer it to the original 
> > | poster incase he was hit by the same issue.
> > | 
> > | It is very easy to replicate here.
> > 
> > Tell me how to reproduce it. I am using mozilla, seamonkey, and firefox
> > and I never see this.
> 
> That's just it. Happens here, but clearly not for anyone else. IIRC I would 
> browse to a place like "www.kakaku.com" - it would go do the resolv thing, and 
> just never come back, as confirmed by ktrace. I can recompile Mozilla, and run 
> ktrace/tcpdump again if you are curious. There's always the chance it "just 
> works" now, like it tends to when you try to demonstrate a problem to someone else.
> 
What version of NetBSD are you using?  As someone noted, there was a
kernel bug in -current that was fixed recently that did cause problems
like these. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb