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Re: [PLUG] Connecting a Mac to a Linux server running IP Masq
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On 28 Aug, 2005, at 08:53, Art Alexion intoned:
I can now establish an Internet connection on the iBook, but having
trouble with certain sites. Some pop up instantly (google, CNN),
others
load slowly (BBC, Apple), and others (most) won't load at all (Yahoo,
OpenOffice.org). I'm thinking this is a DNS issue, but I pointed the
iBook to the same Verizon DNS servers that are working fine on the
Ubuntu and win2k machines.
The speed with which a site loads has nothing to do with the DNS, but
rather with Network Topology. Many "popular" sites use "caching
services" such as Akamai, to speed their load times.
Since you have a new iBook, I assume you have 10.4.2 (Tiger).
Open a terminal window (Applications/Utilities/terminal) and use
"netinfo" or "dig" to see how fast the actual DNS queries return.
You can then use "traceroute" to see what the actual path and
response times to various servers happen to be.
As for Verizon... they have apparently made some kind of significant
change in the past week or so. I have suddenly found my host
blacklisted and unable to communicate with others on verizon.com. So
far, Verizon has not bothered to return any of my communications with
them.
Verizon has never supported Macs, so that you are having problems
using one if they have changed things recently would not be surprising.
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
# Beige G3 [Rev A motherboard - 300 MHz 768 Meg] OS X 10.2.8
# Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.1
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