On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:13:13PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
On Apr 23, 2004, at 1:38 PM, Jammet wrote:
When i go to a website, say Slashdot or freshmeat, or any where that
involves ads on the page some where, about 99% of the time it can take
upwards of 2-3 minutes to load the entire page. [ ... ]
I guess my main question is, anyone ever seen this, if so ever get it
fixed?
Most probably, you are running into delays because your browser queries
websites for an IPv6 address before trying an IPv4 address.
Reportedly, many ad-sites use broken nameservers which botch IPv6
queries, causing the delay. The problem lies on their end, not yours,
but disabling IPv6 or using a proxy server like Squid will probably
remove the delays.
Most of that is true. However, I found it to be a problem with firefox
specifically - in that firefox waits for the 75 second timeout. Forced
me to switch to opera :)
It looks like it will be fixed in the next version of mozilla, though:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68796
The quickest workaround is to add
::0 ad.doubleclick.com
::0 ad.doubleclick.net
to /etc/hosts (not a bad thing to keep in there, really).
hth,
dan
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