Hi, Daniel, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:50:13PM +0200, Daniel Beecham wrote:
> > However.... looking up URL's is very, very slow. This is most > > noticeable when running emerge. It is very also noticeable running > > Firefox; the looking up is _much_ slower than on my existing Debian > > sarge system. > > Presumably, I need to configure some sort of DNS cache, or proxy, or > > whatever it might be called. I've looked in > > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/>, but couldn't find a network > > configuration manual there. > > Would somebody give me a pointer, please? Thanks! > Where are your DNS-server, and how does your routes look like? > I'd like to see your /etc/resolv.conf aswell. :-) /etc/resolv.conf: ######################################################################### # Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0 search Speedport_W_700V nameserver 192.168.2.1 ######################################################################### [translation: A router/DSL modem (called "Speedport") at local address 192.168.2.1.] I do # route (as root), and get this: ######################################################################### Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default speedport.ip 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ######################################################################### Er, where is my DNS-server? That's the entry in resolv.conf, isn't it, i.e. the router at 192.168.2.1? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
