On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:45:46PM -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Dave Feustel dfeustel@mindspring.com writes:
I ask this because I am having new and persistant problems with both Firefox and Konqueror running on 32-bit F9. The problems suggest DOS exploits, and I wonder just how these exploits are being implemented against the two browsers.
Try a "tcpdump -w" of all your traffic for a few days. Poke around the file with wireshark. Any DOS attacks should stand out like a sore thumb.
Since you mention browsers, have you ruled out that your ISP isn't screwing you by forcing a proxy on all tcp/80 traffic? It wouldn't be the first time an ISP tried to increase their network efficiency by forcefully inserting some ill-behaved and overloaded proxy into their customer's data streams.
Would such a proxy cause Firefox and Konqueror to differ in their ability to retrieve URLs? Most of the URLs that Konqueror doesn't display are displayed immediately and with no problem when I start firefox from with konqueror.