Hi Tom, I'm not sure how to find it in XP either especially when DHCP is involved. I have been meaning to set up an XP VM maybe that will get done soon enough to be of some help.
It's not uncommon for home routers to act as a local DNS server but I suspect it may be misconfigured and what's happening is SL requests a resolution from the router, it times out and then goes onto the ISP's. You can verify this from SL by comparing "dig google.com" with "dig @8.8.8.8 google.com" where 8.8.8.8 is google's public dns server and the only one who's IP I know by heart. Toward the end of the crap it prints out is ;; Query time: 47 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) I suspect you'll find the default probably reporting a time out for your router then reporting the ISP's dns. Hopefully you know the passwords for your DSL Router (and your ISP is nice enough to give it to you). I would guess it's an easy change to configure the DNS servers it uses correctly. Joe On 09/13/2013 05:14 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote: > On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 16:41 -0700, Joseph Areeda wrote: >> One more thing: Firefox will display what it's doing in the status line >> at the bottom, I think "looking up google.com" will be displayed >> during the name resolution operation. > Yes, that is what is displayed. > > >> Joe >> >> On 09/13/2013 04:36 PM, Joseph Areeda wrote: >>> My first guess is a DNS issue are they both using the same DNS server as >>> their first choice? 6 to 8 sec smells like a timeout on the first lookup. >>> >>> Just a SWAG that has bit me before. >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> On 09/13/2013 11:46 AM, Tom Rosmond wrote: >>>> I run a dual boot (SL 6.4/Windows XP) workstation. SL is 64 bit, XP is >>>> 32 bit. I have Firefox and Konqueror browsers on SL; Firefox, IE, and >>>> Google Chrome on XP. For all browser choices I notice that when my >>>> browser home page loads (Google.com for all cases), the XP load times >>>> are very quick (< 1 sec), but painfully slow for SL (6-8 secs). I >>>> recently upgraded SL from 5.5 to 6.4, but I had the same symptoms before >>>> the change. >>>> >>>> Here are some data points: >>>> >>>> 1. Firefox: 17.0.8 on SL, 23.0.1 on XP >>>> 2. Temporarily disabling SELinux made no difference >>>> 3. Temporarily disabling all plugins on SL Firefox made no difference. >>>> 4. After the SL home page loads switching to other URL's is noticeably >>>> slower than with XP. >>>> >>>> Is this some kind of authentication hangup? I have looked at the >>>> various logs, but can't see anything. But I am not an expert in this >>>> area, so maybe I don't know what to look for. >>>> >>>> Any insights or suggestions? >>>> >>>> >>>> T. Rosmond >