Firefox Loses DNS in F10
Jim
mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 2 00:05:40 UTC 2008
Andre Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 13:19, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net
> <mailto:tom.horsley at att.net>> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:45:22 -0500
> Richard Heck <rgheck at comcast.net <mailto:rgheck at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
> >
> > I've been seeing a weird problem on F10 in Firefox on a fresh
> install
> > onto my daughter's machine. Frequently, after using Firefox for
> a bit,
> > it seems to lose its ability to do DNS lookups. Every URL
> reports not
> > found. Shutting it down and reopening solves the problem. So
> it's just
> > Firefox, not the whole system. Any ideas?
>
> I see a comcast.net <http://comcast.net> in your address, which
> probably means this is the
> problem:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756
>
> It is random, but because you use firefox more, you see it more there.
>
> I got rid of the problem by running named as a local dns cache and
> starting it with the -4 option so it only does IPv4 requests.
>
>
> That's weird, I've been seing this a lot too. I use dnsmasq as my
> local DNS cache, but Firefox keeps asking over and over again for the
> same addresses (I mean it keeps displaying "Locating xxx" when xxx has
> just been accessed, which means it's on dnsmasq's cache).
>
> I already have "network.dns.disableIPv6" set to true on FF's
> configuration, and I added "install ipv6 /bin/true" to
> /etc/modprobe.conf to disable ipv6.
>
> So, could this be indeed a Firefox bug? (doesn't seem so, but...)
>
> Regards,
>
> Andre
THis is all I did to fix my problem on FC 10 in Firefox.
"network.dns.disableIPv6" set to true on FF's configuration
I'm a happy camper now.
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