On 11/22/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello, I'm at my parents' home for Thanksgiving and connected wirelessly to the family Netgear router via WPA. Page requests sometimes fail in Firefox immediately, without spending any time trying to load the page. I suspect a problem connecting to the ISP's DNS server. How would you troubleshoot this? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Some basic things to look at: 1) Can you successfully ping the ISPs DNS? 2) What's in your system's '/etc/resolv.conf'? (Some DSL/Cable modem routers set themselves up as the DNS server/proxy. It's probably to help speed things up, but I've noticed that my system really doesn't like it and needs to have the ISPs DNS servers listed instead). 3) Is the system/Firefox set up to use IPv6? (There's a setting in Firefox that allows you to prevent it from trying IPv6 lookups: http://en.opensuse.org/Disable_IPv6_for_Firefox - yes, it's a SUSE site, but the directions should work for all systems) HTH, -Hani -- "If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic."
