On Aug 4, 11:46am, lundman@lundman.net (Jorgen Lundman) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Suboptimal DNS lookup in Firefox/Mozilla on lossy net connect

| 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.
| 

You can try that. It's just that there have been a lot bugs lately (in
libpthread, in the kernel, etc.) so I think that it is possible that
you've caught a bad userland/kernel combo.

christos