Bug#578019: libwebkit-1.0-2: makes DNS query for every mouse movement

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 12:52:04AM -0700, ian_bruce at fastmail.net wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:41:30 +0200
> Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> wrote:
> 
> > I can't reproduce this behaviour... Are you sure these requests come
> > from epiphany ?
> 
> Epiphany, or Midori.
> 
> midori : version 0.2.4-2
> 
> epiphany-browser : version 2.30.2-1
> 
> libwebkit-1.0-2 : version 1.2.0-1
> 
> The correlation between moving the mouse pointer around in the browser
> window, and getting this stream of DNS queries, is 100%. If the mouse
> pointer is motionless, or not inside the browser window, nothing
> happens. If it moves inside the browser window, there are two DNS
> queries for every pixel of movement (or more probably, every mouse event
> from the X server):
> 
> 00:27:05.355933 IP web.client.52494 > dns.server.53: 44565+ A? . (17)
> 00:27:05.356072 IP web.client.52494 > dns.server.53: 6626+ AAAA? . (17)
> 00:27:05.378726 IP dns.server.53 > web.client.52494: 44565 0/1/0 (92)
> 00:27:05.379457 IP dns.server.53 > web.client.52494: 6626 0/1/0 (92)
> 
> It doesn't even matter whether the browser window has the input
> focus. However, if the mouse pointer moves along a hyperlink, then no
> DNS queries are generated.
> 
> This is probably a stupid question, but does your /etc/resolv.conf point
> to a remote DNS server? Does tcpdump show the DNS query for the webhost
> when a page gets loaded?

Yes it does. Have you tried with another window manager ?