<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Larry Finger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net">Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Bobby Gill wrote:<br>
> I have a normal wired ethernet connection w/Linksys WRT54GS router +<br>
> cable modem, all has been fine for some time. However I just recently<br>
> notice that in Firefox/Opera whenever I load up a new page most of the<br>
> time on the status bar I can see "Looking up imdb.com..." etc. and it<br>
> hangs there for a good 5-10 seconds, sometimes timing out and I have to<br>
> reload a few times to get the page to go. Pinging <a href="http://google.ca" target="_blank">google.ca</a><br>
</div>> <<a href="http://google.ca" target="_blank">http://google.ca</a>> or what have you in the shell gives normal results,<br>
<div class="im">> though, and all torrents and gaming are going fine too, no<br>
> change/slowdown at all there. I am sure it is either some network config<br>
> I have on the box or perhaps a router setting, I hope someone can help.<br>
><br>
> I backed up and cleared out my hosts file to see if that was causing the<br>
> slowdown (had one grabbed off the net filled with a myriad of spam/bad<br>
> sites, thought that might be causing slowdown) and this is all I got on<br>
> it for now:<br>
<br>
</div>Do you have IPV6 enabled? On some distros, that causes a time-out for<br>
every name server lookup.<br><br></blockquote><div>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 :)<br><br>Bob <br></div></div>