Mozilla Firebird from CVS and all versions of Firefox, when compiled on Gentoo (including firefox 0.8 via ebuild) ~x86 break horribly because they resolve about one in four DNS queries not via the name in /etc/resolv.conf but via 127.0.0.1. This appears to be caused by Gentoo because working firefox binaries from a non-gentoo system also break on Gentoo. My guess is that the Gentoo glibc updates somehow caused this through some sort of non-obvious interaction. I have this problem for more than a year now, but did not report it because I thought it was a mozilla issue. Now I have seen the same problem on a Gentoo system from a friend. He works around by running a BIND on 127.0.0.1, I started using a local HTTP proxy. Please fix! I reported this a white ago to the Mozilla people but they were unable to reproduce it and so could not do anything about it.
exactly what dns queries is it doing? does 'mv .phoenix .phoenix_old' help?
Queries for the web pages I want to go to. A new profile does not help.
I have never seen this on multiple arches. Hopefully it is fixed for you presently with the current version (presently firefox-1.0-r1), but if not, please re-open the bug.
