On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 02:49:46PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 10/28/2008 08:19 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> In summery, it appears at this time that the repeated DNS >> problem (if it is really that) is isolated to Firefox. >> >> > A couple of things first. > There is a daemon, nscd that causes DNS to cache locally. > Additionally, is your Linux system using a static IP, and if so, how > does it have DNS configured, through the router or locally. Then on > Windows, bring up a comand prompt and run "ipconfig /all", and look at > the name servers. > > If nscd is not running, manually start it:"sudo service nscd start" > You could also start it with the system service menu also. > > Also, your name servers are in /etc/resolv.conf > > This list should be similar to your Windows ones. It is possible that > your primary name server could be offline, or far away. > Since your Windows systems do not exhibit this problem, it is probably > something unique to the way you have F9 configured. > > You also might be able to use ping to trouble shoot the problem. > Remember, with firefox, and other browsers you are possibly hitting a > number of different web servers so that by not caching DNS locally, it > is costing you. Good stuff. If it is 'only' Firefox look at the network setup of both. It is common for ISPs and even wireless hot spots to insert a caching server or proxy in the mix. Check your broswer setup Mozilla-->edit-->preferences-->network-->connection-->Settings-->Configure-Proxies.... There are four choices in mozilla.... Compare and contrast -- take notes prior to changing anything. -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
