Bug 510316 - Firefox reports 'unable to contact' web site.
Summary: Firefox reports 'unable to contact' web site.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nss-mdns
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-08 17:07 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified: 2018-04-11 09:36 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-05 06:44:09 UTC
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Description David Woodhouse 2009-07-08 17:07:30 UTC
A number of times recently, firefox has taken to reporting that it is unable to connect to a web site. But tcpdump shows no attempt to connect it, and if I try connecting with telnet from the command line it works fine. 

When this happens, it persists for a few minutes. Going offline and then online doesn't work, and it even sometimes seems to persist when I restart firefox.

There has been no network outage, and I see no reason for the error.

Comment 1 Andre Robatino 2009-07-08 19:48:28 UTC
Is your ISP Verizon by any chance?  They were having serious connectivity issues this morning that should be cleared up now.

Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2009-07-09 10:39:54 UTC
No. As I said, there were _no_ network outages. At the time this is happening (repeatedly) in firefox, I can do DNS lookups and connect to the web site with 'telnet'. And tcpdump from my end shows that there is no _attempt_ to connect.

It did it again this morning with lwn.net, although this time going offline and online again did 'fix' it.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2009-07-20 14:37:10 UTC
Hi, David,

any ideas for more information? I really don't know what to do much with this just with the information you provided, and I don't see many people jumping here to have duplicates.

Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2009-07-20 14:54:35 UTC
Maybe something with nss-mdns? Does other mozilla-based apps work? like epiphany, seamonkey...

Comment 5 Herr Irrtum 2009-07-23 08:30:13 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> Maybe something with nss-mdns? Does other mozilla-based apps work? like
> epiphany, seamonkey...  

Very good guessing, Martin!

Yesterday I updated wine to 1.25 (I guess) using this command

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade wine

wine depends for a odd reason nowadays on nss-mdns (a i586 package - surely because wine is .i586 itself).

After this I had very (un!)funny network effects. I could nslookup and ping anything but firefox and wget did not resolve www- addresses anymore.

"yum remove nss-mdns" and rebooting (I didn't want to find out which services should have to be restarted to avoid this) helps (but unfortunately removes wine as well - got to install an older wine again).

Of course I own a 64 bit fedora.

For my taste the bug report should be named like "wine on testing depends on nss-mdns.i586 -> breaks network on 64bit Fedora" but I am not sure if wine is always the reason for installing nss-mdns.i586 on 64 bit systems.

Best regards,
Herr Irrtum

Comment 6 Chris Campbell 2009-11-28 16:31:54 UTC
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.

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Comment 7 David Woodhouse 2009-12-10 01:03:59 UTC
Happened again today (Fedora 12). I can telnet to port 80 of bugzilla.moblin.org, but firefox tells me it can't connect. A few minutes later, firefox works fine again.

I have nss-mdns.i686 installed, but not the x86_64 version.

How do I go about debugging it? It seems to give me no real indication about what really happened.

Comment 8 pleabargain 2009-12-11 13:54:39 UTC
Maybe related?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533452
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533929


I'm unable to get Firefox or Chrome or Chromium to play nice except for Opera, Opera is fast (but sucks because of bad .js support) ...
the network is fast.

Fx spikes the network with initial request then flatlines.


See videos of problem here:
http://sites.google.com/site/morefedora12/animated-gifs-of-fedora12-in-action
and here
http://sites.google.com/site/lifewithfedora12/home/all-animated-gif

What command can I use to ID if Fx is pulling data? tcdump? I WANT to solve this! My XP and Vista machines on same network run fast on the internet and my manager is getting very skeptical about Linux in general...

Comment 9 Michal Schmidt 2009-12-14 17:05:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> I have nss-mdns.i686 installed, but not the x86_64 version.
> 
> How do I go about debugging it? It seems to give me no real indication about
> what really happened.  

Since nss-mdns is suspected, please attach your /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Does it make any difference if you remove nss-mdns?
Does it make any difference if you install nss-mdns.x86_64?

Comment 10 Michal Schmidt 2009-12-14 17:07:17 UTC
I'm thinking if these bugs as possibly related or even duplicate:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521310
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523690

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Comment 12 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:44:09 UTC
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