[mythtv-users] OT: Web browsing painfully slow, all else w/ethernet working fine

Bobby Gill brownitus at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 00:29:56 UTC 2009


On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>wrote:

> Bobby Gill wrote:
> > I have a normal wired ethernet connection w/Linksys WRT54GS router +
> > cable modem, all has been fine for some time. However I just recently
> > notice that in Firefox/Opera whenever I load up a new page most of the
> > time on the status bar I can see "Looking up imdb.com..." etc. and it
> > hangs there for a good 5-10 seconds, sometimes timing out and I have to
> > reload a few times to get the page to go. Pinging google.ca
> > <http://google.ca> or what have you in the shell gives normal results,
> > though, and all torrents and gaming are going fine too, no
> > change/slowdown at all there. I am sure it is either some network config
> > I have on the box or perhaps a router setting, I hope someone can help.
> >
> > I backed up and cleared out my hosts file to see if that was causing the
> > slowdown (had one grabbed off the net filled with a myriad of spam/bad
> > sites, thought that might be causing slowdown) and this is all I got on
> > it for now:
>
> Do you have IPV6 enabled? On some distros, that causes a time-out for
> every name server lookup.
>
> Ack! I just got linked to the Arch wiki on the forum where I posted as
well, what a silly thing to overlook. That was it, yeah. Thanks Larry :)

Bob
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