Hi all, Thanks for all your advice, i really appreciate it. i think i've got it fixed now.
This is the test i did... i faced the problem again today with Firefox on Ubuntu, so i immediately fired up XP using VMWare server concurrently and surfed the same sites. No problem there. So that would rule out everything EXCEPT: 1. problem with Ubuntu distribution on Firefox 2. problem with the configuration of my Firefox on Ubuntu.. Since i had spent some time searching, and no one else seemed to have the same problem*, that would mean (1) is not very probable. * Note that there was this advice that i found that is to set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true, but it didn't work for me. So i compared the about:config in the Firefox on Ubuntu, with the one running of XP in the VMWare server (filtering by the "network" keyword) and found that the 3 lines differed on the Ubuntu from the default: network.http.max-connections 64 (default 24) network.http.max-connections-per-server 32 (default 8) network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server 16 (default 2) i had no idea what was happening the day before yesterday (when i first experienced problems), but when i resetted these 3 values back to the default, i didn't face problems anymore. probably some kind of anti-DNS attack mechanism kicking in somewhere? Thanks and Regards, Edwin ----- Original Message ---- From: Chris Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2008 10:54:50 Subject: Re: [Slugnet] Network Issue When Using Firefox on Linux? On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Ray Rashif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No distro "tinkers" with an application's "settings" unless there's a level > of functional benefit to gain. Almost always the amount of "customisation" > or hack involved is as far as compiling (hence packaging) only. That's not true.. d: Stable version of Debian involves a lot of code modification, mostly backporting of bugs and proper binary and config files placing, but it does have some other modification. Ubuntu definitely changes the original packages a lot to integrate them together as a desktop distro. For once, if I did not recall wrongly, their version of Firefox includes Ubuntu extensions, which somehow screws up my Firefox (it crashes often after adding some extensions repackaged by Ubuntu). > > The very first method of troubleshooting cases like this is downloading and > installing the official binary build offered by Mozilla, that's right. > Before anything though, we should clear all cache. I have some questions of > my own too: > > 1) Why not use another browser to test the scenario? Candidates would be > Konqueror and Opera, though the state of flash isn't good. Heheh, was about to suggest that too. But that suggestion does not solve the root of the problem. Trying with a fresh binary from Mozilla will clearly demonstrate that it is the app level configuration (I'm betting that it is the app configuration that is wrong). > 2) Have you tried using open DNSs? > 3) How about connecting to the network manually? An example: > > sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 && \ > sudo route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1 I don't think that is a problem though. He seems to be able to ping and telnet to the router, indicating that the network is not the problem. Additionally he can resolve google.com correctly and ping it. Maybe he can provide results of `netstat -rn` and `ifconfig` just to double confirm. > > Ray Chris _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Singapore Answers Real people. Real questions. Real answers. Share what you know at http://answers.yahoo.com.sg _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
