Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:21:05 +0200, Daniel Beecham wrote: > I think that route rDNS'es the host, and is not set. > I could be wrong though. It does, use route -n to prevent this. -- Neil Bothwick If it isn't broken, I can fix it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-13 Thread Daniel Beecham
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 14:59 +0100, Stroller wrote: > On 12 Sep 2008, at 21:59, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > ... > > I do # route (as root), and get this: > > ## > > ### > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination Gateway

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-13 Thread Stroller
On 12 Sep 2008, at 23:43, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... Hidden in the middle of the dumbed-down doku, it says that the router "must use the DynDNS service of some provider, e.g. or 2>. Details of how to use a particular service can be found on the corresponding web page." This is unrelated. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-13 Thread Stroller
On 12 Sep 2008, at 21:59, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... /etc/resolv.conf: ## ### # Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0 search Speedport_W_700V nameserver 192.168.2.1 #

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 13 September 2008 00:43:43 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Sorry, it's difficult.  My router, and its ~160 pages of doku are utter > crap.  The configuration program (over a web browser ) explodes things in > my face each time the mouse moves, and I can't even guess what the > designer was s

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread deface
I use opendns.com - take a peep at it, very highly recommended. deface On Sep 12, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo! I bought a new hard drive on Wednesday, and am seriously getting Gentoo installed (after doing a trial installation in July). However looking up URL'

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Beecham
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:18:16PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:49 + Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 mos

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:49 + Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 run

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Beecham
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:47 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo! > > I bought a new hard drive on Wednesday, and am seriously getting Gentoo > installed (after doing a trial installation in July). > > However looking up URL's is very, very slow. This is most > noticeable when running

[gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

2008-09-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo! I bought a new hard drive on Wednesday, and am seriously getting Gentoo installed (after doing a trial installation in July). 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