Firefox performance - dns ?

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 11:20 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 11:58 +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:
> >> On 24/08/07, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.com> wrote:
> ...
> > www.ebay.com.au to www.slashdot.org.  In fact, it still hasn't happened.
> > 
> > Ah, there it goes.  Once it starts loading the page, then it usually
> > loads very quickly.
> > 
> > So what else can I test?
> dig www.ebay.com.au

[rodd at localhost ~]$ dig www.ebay.com.au

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2b1 <<>> www.ebay.com.au
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 57709
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 9

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.ebay.com.au.               IN      A

<snip>

;; Query time: 4 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 26 13:57:47 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 439


> dig www.slashdot.org


[rodd at localhost ~]$ dig www.slashdot.org

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2b1 <<>> www.slashdot.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33266
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.slashdot.org.              IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.slashdot.org.       7200    IN      A       66.35.250.151

<snip>

;; Query time: 267 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
;; WHEN: Sun Aug 26 13:58:00 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 205

> 
> what are the lookup times presented near the bottom of the results ?

see above

> Are you using proxy on or off in firefox ?

off

> Are you using a dodgy isp's transparent proxy like tpg ?

Not aware of one and pretty sure there isn't one in place.


R.

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