Named CPU skyrockets for ActiveX objects in IE 5.5 browser

[Alessandro Oliveira]

I noticed the same using 9.2.1 on WinXP, but as I remember I haven't had
these problems using 9.2.0, I haven't tested disabling ActiveX Objects to
know the problem stops, but I'll try whenever I have time.

Alessandro.

----- Original Message -----
From: "JB" <usenet at joshuabranch.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 1:05 PM
Subject: Named CPU skyrockets for ActiveX objects in IE 5.5 browser


> I noticed that when I visit the WSJ Online (online.WSJ.com), and I say yes
> to permitting ActiveX objects to run, named CPU goes up to and remains
> around 60%!  If I refresh the page, but then say no to permitting ActiveX
> objects to run on the page, then named CPU usages remains below 1%,
usually
> at 0%!  The results are 100% consistent with whether or not I permit the
> ActiveX advertisements to run on the page.
>
> I found this to be true for any ActiveX object at the WSJ website.  Saying
> yes to an ActiveX object at AltaVista didn't do it.
>
> After installing Bind 9 I added one zone to it.  Yet, I did not point any
> DNS server entries for any registered domain to BIND's public IP, so the
> Internet should not even know it exists unless they scan my ports.
Indeed,
> I have done nothing but installed and run it.
>
> Does anyone know why this might be happening?  I am running W2K.
>
> JB
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