Re: Subject: Re: [PLUG] Why does linux browse at one tenth the speed of Windows XP?

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

John Karr wrote:

> Here's what I found:
>
> #hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
> hosts:      files nisplus nis dns
>
> So I removed all of the NIS entries, and even restarted. It still takes about 30 seconds to open a page. 
>
>  

I bet you have a firewall issue.

OK, have you narrowed the problem down to DNS lookups?  I mean, how long 
does it take to load a page if you use an IP address instead of a name?  
How long does nslookup or dig take to respond?  What about ping and 
traceroute?

Hey, how about running a caching DNS server?
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