Tag: firefox

在「PChome 24h 連線會慢的原因...」這篇的 comment 有讀者提到了 Happy Eyeballs 應該可以解決這個問題：

除了可以在維基百科上面看到外，比較正式的說明可以參考 RFC 6555：「Happy Eyeballs: Success with Dual-Stack Hosts」，其中在「6. Example Algorithm」就有提到 Google Chrome 與 Mozilla Firefox 怎麼實做 Happy Eyeballs：

What follows is the algorithm implemented in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

1. Call getaddinfo(), which returns a list of IP addresses sorted by the host's address preference policy.
2. Initiate a connection attempt with the first address in that list (e.g., IPv6).
3. If that connection does not complete within a short period of time (Firefox and Chrome use 300 ms), initiate a connection attempt with the first address belonging to the other address family (e.g., IPv4).
4. The first connection that is established is used. The other connection is discarded.

If an algorithm were to cache connection success/failure, the caching would occur after step 4 determined which connection was successful.

Other example algorithms include [Perreault] and [Andrews].

可以看到 Happy Eyeballs 的演算法是要避免 IPv6 network 不通的情況卡住很慢 (如果在 300ms 內連線沒有建起來，就會儘快往另外一個 address family 嘗試)，而不是在 DNS 層避免問題 (也就是 getaddinfo() 觸發的 DNS query)。

這次的情況是 DNS query 很慢，就會導致還是一開始就很慢，Happy Eyeballs 沒辦法解決這個問題。

不過話說回來，我是有印象知道有這個演算法，但不知道有「Happy Eyeballs」這個這麼逗趣的名字... (掩面)