154536 - DNS: stops resolving for long period of time

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135724

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Andrew Martin]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; FreeBSD i386; U;) Gecko/0
BuildID:    0000000000

Sometimes immediately at the start of mozilla, or sometime later, hostnames stop
resolving properly.  After a minute or so the hostname eventually resolves and
the page loads.  This happens regardless of the hostname.  During the time it
stops resolving, I am able to resolve hosts with other applications including
the 'host' application.  I run a caching nameserver which is functioning fine,
the problem is only with mozilla.  I have HTTP pipelining disabled.  This
happens every single time the browser is open (eventually).  During the time
mozilla is not resolving hosts, if I substitute in the IP for the hostname the
page WILL load, but only with an IP at that time.  NOTE: I'm using galeon,
however this happens in mozilla without galeon as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. going to websites seems to be enough

uname -a output: FreeBSD whorism 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Wed Jun 26
23:08:00 EDT 2002     ugly@whorism:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHORISM  i386

Comment 1

[benc]

any opinons on this being OS specific?

Comment 2

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

does this problem still exist in 1.1beta?

Comment 3

[Andrew Martin]

I have not tried 1.1beta yet as I use the FreeBSD port..

Comment 4

[benc]

If you stop resolving, do the already-resolved addresses (in DNS cache) still work?

Comment 5

[Andrew Martin]

Benjamin: no, they don't

Comment 6

[benc]

What is the most recent milestone you can run?

Comment 7

[Andrew Martin]

Benjamin: I was able to run 1.1.  I haven't tried 1.2 alpha.  I recently
switched from FreeBSD back to Linux for a non-mozilla issue, so I might not be
able to answer all future questions, but I will try.

-Andrew

Comment 8

[Corey Holcomb-Hockin]

I also have this problem.  I had it with mozilla 1.0rc3 on FreeBSD 4.6.2 and
still have it with mozilla 1.1 on FreeBSD 4.7.  My work around is to quit then
restart mozilla.

Bug 146769 is the same as this bug.

Comment 9

[gordon]

Actually this sounds more like bug 135724, because of its FreeBSD nature. 
Marking duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135724 ***

Comment 10

[Tom Everingham]

verified duplicate

Comment 11

[benc]

V/d - this apears to be bsd-only