--===============1625203894== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1811853.I9V1WmJg7y"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --nextPart1811853.I9V1WmJg7y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Jim Philips wrote: >I am on KDE 3.4 Beta 1, but this problem has been dogging me the last > several versions of KDE. Some popular Web sites are extremely slow to > load in Konqueror when compared with Firefox. And this bothers me, > because I would much prefer to use Konqueror. Some of the offending > sites are: > >http://www.washingtonpost.com Problem: washingtonpost loads one ad image from images2.laih.com. That=20 hostname is served by a buggy, invalid, broken DNS server. $ time host images2.laih.com images2.laih.com is an alias for p.mii.instacontent.net. p.mii.instacontent.net has address 65.216.116.114 real 0m0.026s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.003s $ time host -t aaaa images2.laih.com ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached real 0m10.009s user 0m0.003s sys 0m0.004s See the difference? They drop AAAA queries. It's invalid, broken and buggy= =20 behaviour. Mozilla people were considering adding those known domains to a killfile.=20 We were too, but we never got around to implementing it. I don't know if=20 they have. We would simply discard any and every query to those known, broken domains= =20 until they fixed their DNS servers. The plus side is you would not see=20 their ads in your pages. Note: there are other big sites that would be included in that list. =2D-=20 Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira (DOT) info PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 5. Swa he g=C3=A9anhwearf t=C3=B3 timbran, and hwonne he c=C3=B3m, l=C3=A1!= Unix cw=C3=A6=C3=B0 "Hello,=20 World". =C7=BCfre =C7=BDghwilc w=C3=A6s gl=C3=A6d and seo woruld w=C3=A6s f= r=C3=A9o. --nextPart1811853.I9V1WmJg7y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBB9laiM/XwBW70U1gRArUhAJ95MWWcoNE+hLYVl1s5WEZ6EN4isgCfY12m uY4xAaMr4RoJPzwejrdupok= =WAZU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1811853.I9V1WmJg7y-- --===============1625203894== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << --===============1625203894==--