From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Red Hat/1.0.4-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: I use the following proxy.pac: function FindProxyForURL(url, host) { if (isInNet(host, "172.16.0.0", "255.255.0.0") && (dnsDomainIs(host, "redhat.com") || dnsDomainIs(host, "redhat.de"))) return "SOCKS localhost:3001; DIRECT"; else //return "SOCKS localhost:3001; DIRECT"; return "DIRECT"; } The socks proxy is provided by ssh -D 3001. When the above script is operating on a hostname which requires dns resolution, the whole browser hangs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0.4-1.4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure firefox to use the above proxy.pac 2. Go to a web page which doesn't have a cached dns entry, and whose resolution will take a second or 2. Actual Results: Firefox hangs for the entire duration of the lookup. If the page contains dependencies on other non-cached servers, each of these lookups will also cause a hang. A hang here means that Firefox is entirely unresponsive to user input, and its X window is not refreshed after being obscured. Expected Results: Firefox should continue to respond to user input during any long running operation. Additional info:
we have it on the many systems under WS4. We have sure an another rac script.
Since this bugzilla report was filed, we have seriously upgraded Gecko-related packages, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their distribution available. Please, confirm to us that this bug is reproducible on the latest upgrade of the supported distribution (that's RHEL, or Fedora 7, 8, and Rawhide). Setting the bug to NEEDINFO. If I won't get confirmation of reproducability in 30 days, the bug will be closed as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. [This is mass-changing of bugs which seem to be too old and irrelevant anymore; we are sorry, if this bug should not be incldued.]
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.
I don't have the resources to reproduce a slow DNS server, so your request won't happen.