ray wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:36:53 -0400, Chris wrote:
>
>> I just installed the latest Ubuntu distro to get my feet wet in the
>> world of Linux. So far so good. The one thing that's very noticeable is
>> the slowness of the web. Every time one goes to a new website, there is
>> a long pause (30+ sec.) where Firefox says it's looking up the site,
>> Opera says nothing. If one clicks a link within the site being viewed,
>> there is no pause. As this behaviour seems to be common to both
>> browsers, I'm thinking it's a problem with Ubuntu and may be able to be
>> fixed by tweaking some settings. Can someone point me in the right
>> direction?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Chris.
>
> That is usually due to IPV6 getting in the way. Shut it off and the
> resolve times should show substantial improvement. If it's on the order of
> 12 seconds after that you may need 'options timeout:0' in /etc/resolv - it
> seems some DNS servers miss the first request or two, so you're left
> waiting for a timeout which defaults to 5 seconds.
>

That indeed was the problem and Kees showed me how.

Chris.