slow DNS lookups in Fedora Core 2

Bob Chiodini chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Thu Jul 1 16:13:51 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:25, Keith Morris - IQ wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I have been searching through the archives and googling around trying to
> find some information on this problem but have not found anything
> conclusive so I was hoping someone here might be able to help.
> 

It's there.  But you might need to be in a time warp.

> I have a network with two FC2 machines that are exhibiting the same
> problems of slow name resolution when connecting to the internet.  They
> will take anywhere from 5 - 10 seconds to resolve hostnames. Both
> machines are configured to use DHCP from the router. All of the machines
> in my network are behind a Linksys router with the latest firmware.
> 
> One of the machines is dual boot with WinXP also configured to use DHCP,
> but there are no DNS lookup problems while in WinXP. Lookup is
> practically instantaneous.
> 
> Any insight?  TIA!

Try turning off IPv6. See the posts that came in shortly after yours.

Also alias net-pf-10 in modprobe.conf (and reboot) works.

Bob...
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