Why is Web Browsers so slow at Resolving Hosts

[Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:00:56AM -0500, jim tate wrote:
> Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:45:19AM -0500, jim tate wrote:
> >>Tom Needs a Hat Mitchell wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:02:51PM -0500, jim tate wrote:
> >>>     
> >>>
> >>>>Fedora2-test1
> >>>>Mozilla,Firefox,Konqueror all three are very slow at Resolving Hosts 

> >>>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
> >>>
....
> >>You were right after running "tethereal" and going to 
> >>http://linuxtoday.com, you can see where

> >>How do I correct this on the Fedora2-test1 box.

Ok so lets look at things one at a time.
Please post /etc/resolv.conf for both boxes.

Do you have port filtering (iptables or ipchains) turned on.
If yes to iptables or ipchains how are your filters set.


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