Why is Web Browsers so slow at Resolving Hosts

[jim tate]

Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:02:51PM -0500, jim tate wrote:
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>>Fedora2-test1
>>Mozilla,Firefox,Konqueror all three are very slow at Resolving Hosts and 
>>connecting
>>to Websites.
>>Resolv.conf is setup with "nameserver 192.168.1.1" gateway, Linksys-WRT55AG,
>>eathernet, does not make any difference as to what  make of eathernet 
>>card your using,
>>not using wireless.
>>Another PC and Laptop using Fedora1 core has no problems of resolving 
>>,fast, on > same network.
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>>Any Ideals?
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>s/Ideals/Ideas/
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>On the two linux boxes compare the results of "chkconfig --list | sort "
>Also on both machines compare:
>       /etc/resolv.conf          resolver configuration file
>       /etc/host.conf            resolver configuration file
>       /etc/hosts
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>My guess is that the quick machines are getting name/host resolution from
>the comcast name servers and not the Linksys.  Check also the name server
>configured inside the Linksys, if it is wrong it will be slow.
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>My strategy would be to setup a caching name server and list the comcast
>name servers and bypass the Linksys.
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>You can snoop on the wire and watch host host names are resolved (tethereal)
>and compare the quick and the slow boxes.
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>Is there a proxy in the mix (squid)?
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