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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier at cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com