On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 21:43 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > 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 > The two resolv.conf are the same on both boxes. I am not sure what : host news.bbc.co.uk is supposed to do for me. Could you explain? -- ======================================================================= Not all who own a harp are harpers. -- Marcus Terentius Varro ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
