[CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?
James A. Peltier
jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca
Wed Nov 14 19:48:19 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:09 +1000, redhat at mckerrs.net wrote:
>> First thing that comes to mind is DNS;
>>
>> Has your DNS servers changed and you have them hardcoded
>> in /etc/resolv.conf or similar ?
>>
> Nope - no such file.
>
>> Are the seamonkey/firefox browsers going through a proxy ?
>>
> Nope - direct connect.
>
> The problem went away after a few hours - DSL congestion maybe?
>
> I got a new router yesterday, a DLink WBR 2310, and it has a slightly
> different problem - it is slow to connect to all web sites, but once
> connected, it behaves wonderfully.
>
> mhr
>
>
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create a /etc/resolv.conf in the format
nameserver IP.OF.YOUR.NAMESERVER
You may want try using a third part DNS server. There are a couple free
services out there. OpenDNS being one. Perhaps your name servers are slow.
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