Slow web browsing

kackland · n00b Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 52

Hi

Hopefully someone can help with this one.

I have an Athlon64bit system with Gentoo and Kde3.4 installed. Web browsing is slow. One I've reqwuested a page it can take 10-15 seconds to display it. Same machine same internet connection with Windows XP - it's instant.

I have seen some stuff on IPv6.

I've installed Firefox - it's a bit better but nothing like acceptable.

How do I go about troubleshooting this

Thanks
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alphonce · Apprentice Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 184 Location: Sweden

make sure you have your hostname in your /etc/hosts file, ex.

lmcogs · Guru Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 340

Hi Any more developments on this topic? Has it been solved? If so could you share. I got similar problem.

lmcogs

UberLord · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject:

Are you using ipv6?
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1630 Location: U.S.A.

I noticed that firefox defaults 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to false.
If you have -ipv6 in your use flags shouldn't firefox set that to true? Probably not, but that would be nice if could have that happen if your
USE FLAG was set to disable IPV6.

Not sure how long firefox has been enabling ipv6 lookup, but think that might be part of my recent slowdown at home for dns lookup.
Going to test it when get home. Also going to test switching the primary and secondary dns servers around.
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UberLord · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject:

One test is to go to a known IP6 enabled site such as http://www.isc.org and a IP4 only site such as http://www.gentoo.org

If one is slow and the other is fast then IP6 is the issue. Of course, that does require a configured IP6 connection

Interesting to note that Opera uses IP6 by default even it it's we only have IP6 site addresses where we need an IP6 global address or route.
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Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1630 Location: U.S.A.

Hmmm, maybe they fixed the slow primary DNS, cause this morning everything is fast again.
I tried both places and they were both fast?

Still, I know it might slow down again. So disabled IPV6 in firefox and pinged my DNS boxes at the isp.
The secondary was much faster. So switched them and restarted the network.

So even though the ISP seems to have fixed their problem, doing the above even seemed to make it snappier.
Boy it is sure nice not waiting for the webpages to load. I would sometimes even click on my toolbar for google.com
and it would say couldn't find google.com or would take 10-20 sec to load. Snappy again.

I am curious on another note though: You seem to indicate that the 1st one requires a IP6 setup. I rebuilt my system
awhile back with -ipv6 USE FLAG. I just disabled IPV6 in firefox, and as far as I know, my ISP still is using IPV4. But that
link still works and is as fast as the gentoo one. Backwards compatability??
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UberLord · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:16 pm Post subject:

d_adams · Apprentice Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 223

nutznboltz · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 239

In root.cache

Old:

B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.9.0.107

New:

B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.228.79.201

I think they gave the world from Jan 2004 to Jan 2006 to change. The other day my web browsing got slow and it was tracked down to this DNS issue.