[plug] Firefox/Thunderbird problem with Mandriva 2006 still unresolved

[David Dartnall]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:19 pm, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:51:06PM +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
> > Help (more help) needed please.
> > Despite garry's suggestion of setting proxies and my (blind) fiddling
> > with properties, both firefox (1.0.6-15mdk) snd thunderbird (1.0.6-6mdk)
> > time out when connecting to the net. Firefox returns "Connecting to
> > www.mozilla.org" and then advises "Alert - Operation timed out while
> > attempting to contact www.mozilla.org" and thunderbird shows "Connecting
> > to mail.dialix.com.au" but just stops after about 4 minutes...
>
> When your machine and local network is otherwise quiet, run
>   tethereal -n -i eth0
> in a terminal as root (or with sudo), and immediately try to connect
> to mozilla.org using a newly started firefox.  This should show you
> what firefox is trying to do, and may show you where the error is.
> Paste the output here if you need others to interpret it for you.

Thank you Russell, sorry for the delay in responding but took time to get 
ethereal/tethereal downloaded & installed. I certainly need help to interpret 
the following!

[root at localhost ~]# tethereal -n -i eth0
Capturing on eth0
  0.000000 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.1  DNS Standard query AAAA 
www.mozilla.org
  0.042450  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.100 DNS Standard query response
  0.042914 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.1  DNS Standard query AAAA 
www.mozilla.org
  0.046012  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.100 DNS Standard query response[Malformed 
Packet]
  0.046349 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.1  DNS Standard query A www.mozilla.org
  0.048360  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.100 DNS Standard query response A 1.0.0.0
  0.051829 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43112 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=5840 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162532256 TSER=0 WS=2
  3.051157 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43112 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=23360 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162535256 TSER=0 WS=2
  4.998855 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f -> 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 ARP Who has 192.168.1.1?  
Tell 192.168.1.100
  4.999308 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 -> 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f ARP 192.168.1.1 is at 
00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6
  9.050243 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43112 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=23360 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162541256 TSER=0 WS=2
 10.483194 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.255 CUPS 
ipp://192.168.1.100:631/printers/EPSONSPhR210 (idle)
 21.048420 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43112 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=23360 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162553256 TSER=0 WS=2
 41.478394 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.255 CUPS 
ipp://192.168.1.100:631/printers/EPSONSPhR210 (idle)
 45.044775 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43112 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=23360 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162577256 TSER=0 WS=2
 50.044009 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f -> 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 ARP Who has 192.168.1.1?  
Tell 192.168.1.100
 50.044431 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 -> 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f ARP 192.168.1.1 is at 
00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6
 57.590902 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.1  DNS Standard query AAAA 
fxfeeds.mozilla.org
 57.871584  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.100 DNS Standard query response CNAME 
virtual-fxfeeds.mozilla.org
 57.871859 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.1  DNS Standard query A 
fxfeeds.mozilla.org
 57.875279  192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.100 DNS Standard query response A 1.0.0.0
 57.875786 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43113 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=5840 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162590088 TSER=0 WS=2
 60.874366 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43113 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=23360 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162593088 TSER=0 WS=2
 62.863942 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 -> 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f ARP Who has 192.168.1.100?  
Tell 192.168.1.1
 62.863967 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f -> 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 ARP 192.168.1.100 is at 
00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f
 64.079957 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.255 BROWSER Local Master Announcement 
LOCALHOST, Workstation, Server, Print Queue Server, Xenix Server, NT 
Workstation, NT Server, Master Browser
 64.079983 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.255 BROWSER Domain/Workgroup 
Announcement MDKGROUP, NT Workstation, Domain Enum
 66.873454 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43113 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=23360 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162599088 TSER=0 WS=2
 72.473774 192.168.1.100 -> 192.168.1.255 CUPS 
ipp://192.168.1.100:631/printers/EPSONSPhR210 (idle)
 78.871632 192.168.1.100 -> 1.0.0.0      TCP 43113 > 80 [SYN] Seq=0 Ack=0 
Win=23360 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=162611088 TSER=0 WS=2
 83.870865 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f -> 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 ARP Who has 192.168.1.1?  
Tell 192.168.1.100
 83.871302 00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6 -> 00:a0:cc:52:9c:8f ARP 192.168.1.1 is at 
00:30:0a:1d:b4:e6

This seems to be overdone but I can't see any obvious repetition..
regards and thanks
Dave D