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
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