Firefox performance - dns ?

[David Timms]

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
dig www.slashdot.org

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

Are you using proxy on or off in firefox ?

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

DaveT.