Firefox Loses DNS in F10

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:45:22 -0500
Richard Heck <rgheck at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> I've been seeing a weird problem on F10 in Firefox on a fresh install 
> onto my daughter's machine. Frequently, after using Firefox for a bit, 
> it seems to lose its ability to do DNS lookups. Every URL reports not 
> found. Shutting it down and reopening solves the problem. So it's just 
> Firefox, not the whole system. Any ideas?

I see a comcast.net in your address, which probably means this is the
problem:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756

It is random, but because you use firefox more, you see it more there.

I got rid of the problem by running named as a local dns cache and
starting it with the -4 option so it only does IPv4 requests.