Aaron Konstam wrote: > I asked this before but let me ask it again in a different way. I have > two machines of my home lan. When I ping the lan router 5 ping cycles > take essentially the smae time. I am pinging to a 1p address. > > I can ping an external internet address and the pings take essentially > the same time. > > However, I ask one of the machines to get content through a browser > things grind to a halt. The same thing happens when I do a yum operation Sounds like DNS problems. In which case just host news.bbc.co.uk or whatever on the bad box should also go away for a long time. cat /etc/resolv.conf on the two boxes and see if there are any differences. -Andy
