On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 22:20 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Hi,
>
> I experienced a slow web page openning. When I try to open a web page eg
>
http://home.aapt.com.au, It starts 'looking up home.aapt.com.au
> <
http://home.aapt.com.au>, this lasts more than 40 seconds then to start
> 'transfer from home.aapt.com.au <
http://home.aapt.com.au>. VERY SLOW.
> However, if I got the ip adddress of this, eg
>
http://203.63.89.59 <
http://203.63.89.59>
> the 'looking up' lasts less than 2 seconds and start trasfer ...
>
> I guess it may relate to the ISP dns, apart from the ISP side, what else
> I can improve this?
You can run your own cacheing DNS server very easily with Fedora.
Just install bind
# yum install bind caching-nameserver
# service named start
# chkconfig named on
Edit /etc/resolv.conf to say to use your own DNS
nameserver 127.0.0.1
...and that's it, you can test with ping
ping home.aapt.com.au
If your normal DNS server is unreliable, this is a great and fast fix.
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unless the problem is ipv6
try turning ipv6 off
system-config-network (select your interface, double click it, uncheck
ipv6, save, restart)
Craig