fmpub javascript slowww

October 21, 2006 2:39 PM

Whatever this fmpub javascript thing is, it's making it annoyingly slow to load the front pages (www. and ask.). And has been doing so for at least a couple of days. This is what one sees for an interminable period of time.
posted by evariste to Bugs at 2:39 PM (19 comments total)

More:

host fmpub.net
;; reply from unexpected source: 209.51.128.20#53, expected 209.51.143.76#53
;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 34393, got 26947
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

host static.fmpub.net
;; reply from unexpected source: 209.51.128.20#53, expected 209.51.143.76#53
;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 14481, got 54594
;; reply from unexpected source: 209.51.128.20#53, expected 209.51.143.76#53
;; Warning: ID mismatch: expected ID 14481, got 54594
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Some kind of DNS problem?
posted by evariste at 2:42 PM on October 21, 2006

I hadn't noticed it myself, but I just pinged the fmpub tech guy and asked him what was up.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 2:54 PM on October 21, 2006

You probably have the javascript cached by your browser. I didn't because I mainly read the site by RSS.
posted by evariste at 2:58 PM on October 21, 2006

Since you seem to be have contact with the fmpub people, couldn't you just put a copy of all the static scripts onto the Metafilter server and get fmpub to notify you when something changes. This would presumably reduce the number of times when page loads are disrupted by the fmpub server being slow.
posted by matthewr at 3:03 PM on October 21, 2006

Is BoingBoing also part of this fmpub thing? Because it's loading really really slow as well.
posted by evariste at 3:05 PM on October 21, 2006

Yes, Boing Boing uses Federated Media (IIRC, the owner of Federated Media is one of the people who writes BB).
posted by jeversol at 3:43 PM on October 21, 2006

Ah, that's pretty interesting. Thanks.
posted by evariste at 3:45 PM on October 21, 2006

../WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts.

127.0.0.1 dynamic.fmpub.net
posted by crunchland at 3:58 PM on October 21, 2006

IRC, the owner of Federated Media is one of the people who writes BB

False. John Battelle runs fmpub, boingboing is four unrelated people that hired him to handle ads a couple years ago.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 4:22 PM on October 21, 2006

But in this case:
127.0.0.1 static.fmpub.net
posted by matthewr at 4:22 PM on October 21, 2006

maybe, then,

127.0.0.1 fmpub.net

might be the best way to go.
posted by crunchland at 4:24 PM on October 21, 2006

Not sure if that will work, crunchland. To test it, I set 'metafilter.com' to 127.0.0.1. I could still access www.mefi and ask.mefi; it was only http://metafilter.com that was blocked.
posted by matthewr at 4:41 PM on October 21, 2006

Matt, is there a reason you're putting document.write's in the middle of the page? You do realize that the entire page rendering is halted with internal page scripts, right? You could easily solve this problem by putting a placeholder with an ID where the ads are to be rendered, then generate the document.write's in the footer. When they're calculated (/downloaded), replace the element ID with the advertisement. That way the whole page loads first, then the ads.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:06 PM on October 21, 2006

C_D, I'll pass it along to the fmpub folks. I think they've got a way of doing that for ad serving, yeah.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:09 PM on October 21, 2006

The 'hosts' file is a terrible way to block things. Why not install AdBlock or something similar instead and do it right? I've never had any of this slowdown thing due to fmpub, because it's all blocked anyway.
posted by Rhomboid at 8:17 PM on October 21, 2006

Does adblock work on all browsers?
posted by crunchland at 8:21 PM on October 21, 2006

Yes, on all the browsers that matter. Firefox.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:23 PM on October 21, 2006 [1 favorite]

Firefox is for MetaFilter pussies. I drive my 2006 Opera all over the internets.
posted by evariste at 8:37 PM on October 21, 2006

Fuck Firefox right in it's XULhole.

I stopped using it full time around v.0.8 — there are so many better browsers, especially on OS X (Safari, Camino, Shiira, Sunrise, + the Webkit Nightly Builds). Now I only use Firefox on Unix and Windows machines, mostly at work where I won't ever have it running overnight. I often use Dillo on Linux as well, especially on lower powered machines when I don't feel like running Firefox over Remote X (or can't, because I'm already doing so on another xTerminal and Firefox locks your config to one instance at a time, so annoying).
posted by blasdelf at 2:48 PM on October 22, 2006