Mailing List Archive: Nameserver issues

Nameserver issues

Oct 22, 2004, 6:37 AM

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Hello.

I have read every post in the forums on this issue and although it appears that this is a common issue, I have not seen a 'tried and true' solution yet.

Basically when I surf the web (with Firefox), it usually takes between 5-30 seconds for the site name to be resolved as indicated by the 'looking up www.gentoo.org' message at the bottom of the browser window. Not all the time but I would hazard a guess at 80% of the time.

It is not a problem with the nameservers (as supplied by my ISP) themselves as the same ones are used by my Windows computer and Internet Explorer works with absolutely no delay.

I have tried what few remedies others have advocated in the forums (including rearranging the entries in etc/resolv.conf or removing ipv6 support by recompiling the kernel and /or firefox) to no avail.

Can anyone suggest anything that I may be able to try?

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Re: Nameserver issues [ In reply to ]

bouvetoya at gmail

Oct 22, 2004, 6:42 AM

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It may be worth checking what your primary nameserver is, and also
whether you are using a caching nameserver on your machine.

Or perhaps the nameserver you are using is simply congested? Most ISPs
have a choice of 3 or 4 nameservers, and I always use the **last** on
the list

Hope this helps

Paul

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:37:35 -0400, reg <reg@rgh.ca> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have read every post in the forums on this issue and although it appears that this is a common issue, I have not seen a 'tried and true' solution yet.
>
> Basically when I surf the web (with Firefox), it usually takes between 5-30 seconds for the site name to be resolved as indicated by the 'looking up www.gentoo.org' message at the bottom of the browser window. Not all the time but I would hazard a guess at 80% of the time.
>
> It is not a problem with the nameservers (as supplied by my ISP) themselves as the same ones are used by my Windows computer and Internet Explorer works with absolutely no delay.
>
> I have tried what few remedies others have advocated in the forums (including rearranging the entries in etc/resolv.conf or removing ipv6 support by recompiling the kernel and /or firefox) to no avail.
>
> Can anyone suggest anything that I may be able to try?
>
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Re: Nameserver issues [ In reply to ]

reg at rgh

Oct 22, 2004, 10:04 AM

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:42:13 +0100
Paul Carroll <bouvetoya@gmail.com> wrote:

> It may be worth checking what your primary nameserver is, and also
> whether you are using a caching nameserver on your machine.
>
> Or perhaps the nameserver you are using is simply congested? Most ISPs
> have a choice of 3 or 4 nameservers, and I always use the **last** on
> the list
>

Thanks but I don't think it is the particular nameserver that is the problem as they work just fine under Windows. Unfortunately, the only thing I am sure of is that they don't work on my Gentoo box using Firefox....so I am trying to to determine if this is a linux issue, a gentoo issue, a config issue, a firefox issue or what. It does seem to be fairly prevalent in the forums.

> Hope this helps
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:37:35 -0400, reg <reg@rgh.ca> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have read every post in the forums on this issue and although it appears that this is a common issue, I have not seen a 'tried and true' solution yet.
> >
> > Basically when I surf the web (with Firefox), it usually takes between 5-30 seconds for the site name to be resolved as indicated by the 'looking up www.gentoo.org' message at the bottom of the browser window. Not all the time but I would hazard a guess at 80% of the time.
> >
> > It is not a problem with the nameservers (as supplied by my ISP) themselves as the same ones are used by my Windows computer and Internet Explorer works with absolutely no delay.
> >
> > I have tried what few remedies others have advocated in the forums (including rearranging the entries in etc/resolv.conf or removing ipv6 support by recompiling the kernel and /or firefox) to no avail.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest anything that I may be able to try?
> >
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Re: Nameserver issues [ In reply to ]

ajai at bway

Oct 23, 2004, 9:12 PM

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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, reg wrote:

> Thanks but I don't think it is the particular nameserver that is the problem as they work just fine under Windows. Unfortunately, the only thing I am sure of is that they don't work on my Gentoo box using Firefox....so I am trying to to determine if this is a linux issue, a gentoo issue, a config issue, a firefox issue or what. It does seem to be fairly prevalent in the forums.

Does it only act flakey in Firefox?

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Re: Nameserver issues [ In reply to ]

alex at halogen-dg

Oct 24, 2004, 10:07 PM

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reg wrote:

> Basically when I surf the web (with Firefox), it usually takes between
> 5-30 seconds for the site name to be resolved as indicated by the 'looking
> up www.gentoo.org' message at the bottom of the browser window. Not all
> the time but I would hazard a guess at 80% of the time.
> It is not a problem with the nameservers (as supplied by my ISP)
> themselves as the same ones are used by my Windows computer and Internet
> Explorer works with absolutely no delay.
> Can anyone suggest anything that I may be able to try?

My personal belief that that only could be related to nameservers (90%) but...
Here are some ideas:

1. Try
ping -c 1 soimesite

and see how much time is needed to resolve the name.

If ping resolves sites slow, then problem in DNS.

2. Try to look at site in different browser: for example Opera or Konqueror,
or links, or lynx, check if same problem appears

3. If problem appears in firefox only - report to firefox forums

4. If problem with DNS - I suggest to either addc/change some nameservers,
or add caching nameserver (without query forwarding to your ISP - so it
will resolve names itself. Both bind and dnscache work nice, but for
home I am using tinydns / dnscache).

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