On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Samuel Bächler wrote: > >> Hoi Everyone >> >> Consider I want to see www.foo.bar: I open my browser >> and type www.foo.bar. >> Now, my problem begins: >> Iceweasel says "Looking up www.foo.bar..." >> In recent days this "Looking up" process began to take quite >> a lot of time (more than 15 seconds). > > Make sure all the servers in /etc/resolv.conf actually work. If the > first one is down, you'll have to wait for it to time out before Debian > will try the second one.
Also, unlike Windows/IE, browsers for Linux do not provide DNS caching. I use 'dnsmasq' to provide this facility under debian for my home LAN. There are others, and yes, caching makes a big difference in the responsiveness. -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]