On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 22:20 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > Hi, > > > > I experienced a slow web page openning. When I try to open a web page eg > > http://home.aapt.com.au, It starts 'looking up home.aapt.com.au > > <http://home.aapt.com.au>, this lasts more than 40 seconds then to start > > 'transfer from home.aapt.com.au <http://home.aapt.com.au>. VERY SLOW. > > However, if I got the ip adddress of this, eg > > http://203.63.89.59 <http://203.63.89.59> > > the 'looking up' lasts less than 2 seconds and start trasfer ... > > > > I guess it may relate to the ISP dns, apart from the ISP side, what else > > I can improve this? > > You can run your own cacheing DNS server very easily with Fedora. > > Just install bind > > # yum install bind caching-nameserver > # service named start > # chkconfig named on > > Edit /etc/resolv.conf to say to use your own DNS > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > ...and that's it, you can test with ping > > ping home.aapt.com.au > > If your normal DNS server is unreliable, this is a great and fast fix. ---- unless the problem is ipv6 try turning ipv6 off system-config-network (select your interface, double click it, uncheck ipv6, save, restart) Craig
