[kwlug-disc] Slow DNS in Firefox

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Any ideas why Firefox would be slow to load webpages (usually pausing on
> DNS lookups) when 'host domain.com' works fast from the command line,
> and IPv6 is (supposedly) disabled?
>
> This is on Debian Squeeze on an ipv4-only network.
>
> - Chris
>

Not identical but ....

I saw something similar to this a while back, and thought it was Rogers
DNS servers that are slow.

While trying to trouble shoot it, I switched to Google's public DNS servers
(8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) and the issue went away.
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