OT: EBay UK search hanging

From: Devon <bobcaar_at_softhome.net>
Date: Thu Jun 17 17:10:16 2004

I believe there's an option in Opera's Preferences > Network...Synchronous
DNS. Disabling this should allow other sessions to continue to function.
I'd also check the privacy tab and remove any cookie restrictions.

I've had a similar problem on a University network with flaky DNS servers.
Seems the servers would be unreachable at the moment Opera tried to connect
and it choked. DNS was usually reachable again by the time I ran nslookup.
 My solution was to set up a local caching DNS server. This was with Opera
6.05, and it didn't happen that often, but happened on any site. I've also
seen no responce from ebay when attempting to "View sellers other items"
and assumed it was their problem. Never had the problems with Opera 5.12,
but, it wasn't used on that network for very long.

T.H.x.
Devon

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:08:18 +0000
From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: OT: EBay UK search hanging
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Knowing that there's a few EBay users on the list who also know how to
fix modern software... :-)

On the rare occasions that I do actually bother to search EBay for
anything classic computer related I quite often find that hitting the
search submit button just hangs, with the browser (Opera under Linux in
my case) sitting there saying "Waiting for DNS confirmation of cookie
domain(s)".

If I open another browser window at this point and then try and go to
any other site it'll just sit there with the same message.

If I close the browser and come back later it's fine. Very frustrating.
Anyone else see this or know what causes it? I've *only* seen it happen
trying to do an Ebay search, never with any other website - but it's
been this way for months.

Whilst it's hung like this in the browser I can do DNS lookups from the
shell fine, so it's not a DNS problem or a local configuration problem.
I assume Opera happens to use shared DNS lookup code and for some reason
something to do with EBay's search *sometimes* makes it hang.

Presumably others might be able to shed some light on this, or at least
confim / deny that they've seen similar problems with EBay UK from
different platforms and browsers...

cheers

Jules
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 17:10:16 BST