Re: Netscape stays blocked

> Hello all,
>
> I'm new to the list. I've been trying to find info about this in the FAQ
> /archives without success.
>
> Here's the problem:
>
> Netscape navigator (v3 and v4) blocks for a while when requesting pages
> with slow access time or high latency. This block continues until some
> kind of response is received from squid and may last even 5 seconds. The
> problem doesn't seem to occur with IE.
>
> Anybody knows the reason of this or any solution?
> I'm using Squid 2.0Patch2 on a Linux 2.0.35.
>

I only see this when netscape issues a resolver request and it
takes a while to reply.

If it has the proxy settings then it could happen if the nameserver
your unix machine is set to query takes a while to give a response,
but its more noticeable when someone is doing transparent proxying,
and the nameserver netscape is querying takes a while to resolve
the name of the website.

Try setting the proxy lines in your netscape config to the *IP* of
your squid cache and restart netscape, and see if it helps.

(It might be netscape flushing its disk cache too, if it continues
happening, try disabling disk cache..)

Adrian
Received on Thu Feb 04 1999 - 07:13:54 MST