Subject: Re: Suboptimal DNS lookup in Firefox/Mozilla on lossy net connections?
To: Jorgen Lundman <lundman@lundman.net>
From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/03/2006 10:58:30
Jorgen Lundman 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.

Where is the problem, and is there anything one can do to fix it?

How closely does NetBSD track the ISC BIND distribution?  Would merging 
libresolv from BIND-8.4.7 or BIND-9.3.2 sources help, or is the problem 
somewhere else, perhaps with the POSIX threads support?

-- 
-Chuck