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

[Larry Finger]

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.