As long as speedport.ip is 192.168.2.1, the routes are okay, and the resolv-file is okay aswell.
It's most likely either DNS-cacheer, i.e. your own router, or the DNS-server your ISP is giving you beeing the bottleneck. You could go ahead and dig(1) both those servers and perhaps time(1) that. If you can find any logs in your router that would help aswell. -- Daniel. On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 20:59 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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? >
