[olug] DNS lookups lagging?

[DYNATRON tech]

pointing to OpenDNS had little effect.
however, Mr. SCSI is the man of the day in my book.
worked immediatelly. i didn't even need to restart the browser.


holy sh1t! i didn't know firefox could actually be fast!
loading of pages is nearly instantaneous.
simply amazing the difference it makes.

any suggestions on konquerer?

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Mr Scsi <mrscsi at gmail.com> wrote:

> You may have already found this, but it helped when I had the same problem.
>
> In firefox type in about:config,
> filter for 'ipv6' you should have an entry for network.dns.disableIPv6
> right click on it and 'toggle' it to a true value,
> restart firefox and see if it helps.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:59 AM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > it seems that my DNS lookups have about an 8 second lag in several linux
> > distros.
> > most recently i'm using mandriva, but it seems to be an issue for me in
> > ubunto as well as a couple other distros.
> > my laptop (windows OS) doesn't seem to suffer the issue unless i use an
> > ubuntu live disc.
> > i am using windstream DSL at my home with a mix of DHCP and static
> > addressing.
> > i did a mandriva install for a friend with cox internet (DHCP), and it
> > suffers the same lag on his connection.
> > most notably, the lag happens on the web browsers (firefox, epiphany,
> > konquerer)
> > the lag occurs only when switching between domains (google.com -->
> > yahoo.com),
> > or a different host on the same domain (www.google.com -->
> > images.google.com).
> > it does not occur when the target domain doesn't change.
> > what makes me think that it may not be a DNS issue, is that returning to
> a
> > previous domain will produce the same lag, even though DNS should have
> been
> > resolved and cached already.
> >
> > is anybody else having the same issues?
> > i did a google search, but only unrelated results or people in forums
> > arguing about how to fix it.
> > all i can gather is that it might have something to do with network
> > filtering of IPv6 packets.
> > if this is true, what's the easiest way to disable IPv6?
> > i'm willing to try it as long as it doesn't require downgrading to a 2.4
> > kernel as a forum poster suggested.
> >
> > thanks for reading!
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