153589 - DNS: stops resolving names after a couple of hours

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

DNS: stops resolving names after a couple of hours.

1. Start Mozilla, surf for a few hours...

ACTUAL BEHAVIOUR:
DNS lookups suddenly fails _in Mozilla only_. Status bar says "Resolving host
www.kth.se" and throbber spins forever. No error dialog pops up.
While this happens, starting a MS-DOS prompt and 'ping www.kth.se' works fine.
If I instead go directly to IP address for www.kth.se, 130.237.32.51, the page
started to load before getting stuck on resolving www.kth.se again.

I have seen this behaviour on a couple of occasions now.

After restarting the browser everything works fine.

Currently using build 2002-06-21-04 (trunk) on Windows 98 SE.

Comment 1

[benc]

Mats: I don't know what would cause this to occur. Would you be able to test a
newer build, like Mozilla 1.1 or 1.2a?

Comment 2

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Benjamin: I always use trunk builds, never more than a week old.
The problem is that I don't use Windows 98 much anymore and I have never seen
this bug in a any Linux builds. It's fine with me if you resolve this bug
as worksforme - I'll reopen it if I see it again.

Comment 3

[benc]

RESOLVED/WFM, per report.

if you could VERIFY this bug, that would be great. Just so you know, you can
change status on bugs you file.

Comment 4

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

verified wfm