On 9/1/07, Chris Buechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > > i have a client, who has been running pfsense since january. i recently > > updated him to 1.2-RC1, and since then, his internet browsing for his site > > has been really poor. when a browser is opened, the initial connection to > > the site takes 10-15 seconds, then the site starts to open. other links > > within the site will seem to work fine, but when you try to open another > > site, pause.. then opens. > > > > For the sake of the archives - Jonathan sent me the packet captures as I > instructed in a previous reply. It's nothing pfsense-related, it's DNS > on the client machine. > > The client machine is doing several AAAA lookups (IPv6) which are timing > out or getting empty responses before doing A lookups (IPv4) for the > domain name. This is adding a 10-15 second delay to every DNS lookup > while all the IPv6 lookups fail. Since your typical page load is going > to make a few DNS queries, incurring this delay several times, it has a > significant impact on page load times. Once the machine queries the A > record as it should have initially, it gets a reply very quickly and > immediately pulls down the web page with no delays whatsoever. >
Is this a Vista thing we should look out for? If so, whats the fix that worked here? sai --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
