local dns problems will manifest themselves as failed look ups, long look up times then normal transfer rates.
if domain names are resolving properly they will be resolving to ipv4 addresses and the stack will use the right protocol. check your network cable, switch/hub port and look at /var/log/messages for error messages - it could also be your network card. Dean On Mon, November 27, 2006 11:24 pm, Ashley wrote: > Hi All, > My ADSL is as slow as dialup when searching for pages. even google > takes 30-60 seconds to start to display. I know it's only 512k ADSL but > I think there must be a problem as my daughter's XP machine displays all > pages very quickly. > My machine is an AMD64 3300+ running Ubuntu64 6.10 and my daughter's is > a 1700 celeron with XP. > I assumed the problem was DNS related but we both use the same DNS. The > only thing I can see that is significantly different is the existance of > ipV6 addresses > How do I stop Ubuntu 6.10 trying to use ipV6. I've removed the addresses > where I could find them, but still I get them displayed when I do an > ifconfig. > > TIA > Ashley > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
