Slow Second Access to Internet

[Mark Haney]

Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> In my FC7, using Firefox, if for example, I access
> www.google.com, I get an essentially instantaneous
> response.  If I then close the browser, reopen it,
> and again try to access google, there is a long
> delay, perhaps a minute before I get the response.
> (I note that my browser is set to delete all
> private on closing.)  During this delay, the
> browser reports that it is looking up the URL.
> If I then wait a few minutes I can repeat the
> whole scenario.
> 
> I suspect that something similar may be happening
> with my Pan news reader.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike.
> 

Does this happen with any other browsers?  I know Pan can be really 
sluggish at times, so I tend to discount that app as far as network 
reaction times go.

Does opera or Konqueror do that?  I haven't seen this problem in FF on 
my Fedora boxes.


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Mark Haney
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