slow DNS lookups in Fedora Core 2

Timothy Payne tim at tmpco.com
Tue Jul 6 05:36:34 UTC 2004


Some one made a post to add a line to turn off IPV6 but I forgot what
file I changed.  It solved the problem.

Tim...

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 22:01, Edward wrote:
> Keith Morris 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.
> > 
> > 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!
> > 
> > Keith
> 
> What does your resolv.conf look like??
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
> 
> 





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