Last weekend I posted the thread 'slow loading browser homepage'. I got useful feedback from several people that helped narrow the problem to the order that nameservers are listed in my 'dhclient-eth0.leases' file. It has the line:
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1,216.177.225.9; The first address is my DSL modem, the last one of my ISP's nameservers. Because the modem isn't a nameserver, it times out and then the second resolves URL's. So I get 6-8 second loading delays. On the advice of my ISP I reconfigured my modem to use static IP's for WAN IP addresses, using their nameservers, i.e. 216.177.224.9 and 216.177.225.9. I also put these IP's in the 'resolv.conf' file and the 'ifcfg-eth0' file. Yet in spite of these changes 'dhclient' continues to put the modem address first in the above 'dhclient-eth0.leases' option line whenever the network is restarted. Here is the dhclient line that is run: /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -cf /etc/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.conf -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-eth0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid eth0 The 'dhclient-eth0.conf' file is this: send vendor-class-identifier "anaconda-Linux 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 x86_64"; timeout 45; This seems pretty minimal. Is there something I can add to this file to coerce 'dhclient' to correctly list the nameservers I want, or perhaps quickly dismiss the first address? 'man dhclient.conf' gives a long list of options, and I need some advice on what might be relevant for this problem. I tried 'timeout 01' but it didn't have any effect. T. Rosmond