[lug] Suspicous: "host"/"DNS" Showing Odd Results (Fedora)

[Davide Del Vento]

Here are my $0.02
I use Linux (currently Ubuntu, fresh install after several years of
Mint), Firefox and Comcast. I've been able to reproduce exactly what
you describe with ping, host etc.
I never experienced a Firefox crash, and I use tabs extensively.
However I also very aggressively use NoScript, without it I find
Firefox crashes pretty frequently (even at work, where our network has
nothing to do with Comcast).
So if you don't use NoScript, I suppose you just experience these
frequent Firefox crashes which you have found correlated with the
existing problem of misconfigured DNS (or whatever that is)

On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 5:24 PM,  <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
> Btw, it is SSL which doesn't like the name changing for a single
> dotted-decimal address. Firefox is just using the SSL. The issue shows up
> from rapidly opening multiple SSL login pages simultaneously.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Sent: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 23:12:06 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [lug] Suspicous: "host"/"DNS" Showing Odd Results (Fedora)
> On 9/3/2018 5:08 PM, stimits at comcast.net wrote:
>> I wouldn't believe it either but I've verified my firefox and watched in
>> the stack frame what is causing the lock. When the name switches mid
>> stream it locks. Fedora 27. Note that when the name shows up constant
>> (regardless of what it shows up as), then there is no lockup. This
>> occurs only if multiple queries running simultaneously use different
>> names for the same IP.
> Did you build this yourself? Or are you running weird addons?
> My Firefox doesn't make any reverse DNS lookups.
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