Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 4851
Netscape slow
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:09:52 EDT
Netscape is *incredibly* slow in making the initial connection and in transferring data from web pages. I have checked DNS. The only symptom I can find are msgs from 'identd' in /var/log/messages : ------------------------------------------------------------ Sep 2 14:01:33 swe10 identd[895]: Connection from 189.1.20.1 Sep 2 14:01:45 swe10 identd[897]: Connection from 189.1.20.1 Sep 2 14:02:48 swe10 identd[895]: from: 189.1.20.1 ( 189.1.20.1 ) for: 1051, 3128 Sep 2 14:03:00 swe10 identd[897]: from: 189.1.20.1 ( 189.1.20.1 ) for: 1052, 3128 Sep 2 14:06:02 swe10 identd[907]: Connection from 189.1.20.1 Sep 2 14:07:19 swe10 identd[907]: from: 189.1.20.1 ( 189.1.20.1 ) for: 1053, 3128 S ------------------------------------------------------------ 189.1.20.1 is a firewall (Linux on Sun). Note the wide time gap between these messages. I have no idea why the data rates are so slow. ftp and rcp seem to work fine. Our SGI Indy's work fine.
Check you dns config in /etc/resolv.conf -- that's the usual reason for "my network application runs slowly".
I have the same problem here. Someone told me that it had something to do with some libs that Netscape in RedHat 6.0 was compiled with. Have not tried to compile the new netscape with the old libs from RedHat 5.2 yet. Maybe it gives a glue of what might be wrong.
netscape is a binary package. You can't recompile it (unless you happen to work for Netscape...) ------- Additional Comments From 09/16/99 14:50 ------- That is really a pitty because I don't work there. But serious, how many people have this problem? Are we the only few???
This really sounds like your first nameserver is unavailable and times out. Please try using the host command to see how long it takes to resolve the same hostnames you are trying to access with netscape. ------- Additional Comments From 09/20/99 14:35 ------- I am having the same problem. It works great when connected to the net, but takes forever when I'm not. I have to assume that it is trying to do a DNS lookup. I have a resolv.conf (necessary when I am online) but it should not be used when I am not cause it won't work. Are there any other browser alternatives out there? (good ones?)
This will hang like this, if you're running a caching nameserver and you aren't connected to the net ; the best solution in this case is to not run a caching nameserver. :(