ray wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:48:48 -0400, Chris wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Did IPV6 take care of the whole problem or did you need to 'patch'
> /etc/resolv? On systems I've seen, there was a 45 second delay. IPV6
> knocked that down to 12 seconds and /etc/resolv timeout reduced that to
> nil.
>
No. IPV6 took care of the problem completely. Response is almost
instantaneous now.

Chris.