slow web access with linux (windows OK)

[franklin97355]

I have a system with two drives, one has linux (SUSE 10) and the other has windows xp pro. The system is connected to a Linksys dsl router that provides the IP and routing info. When I'm running windows websites come up in one or two seconds but in linux it may take ten to thirty seconds for the same pages to render. I get a message on the status line "looking up <website>". Both systems are using Firefox to test. I'm thinking it may have something to do with DNS but the numbers look the same on both OS's. Any ideas?

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[rzs0502]

I have a similar setup although the os's are on seperate machines.
Is you router acting as a default gateway on the linux os?
Does /etc/resolv.conf have the ip of the router?
Check /etc/nsswitch.conf for
hosts: files dns


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[jstreich]

It does sound like a name resolution problem. To test if this really is the case, look at a site you know the ip address to from both drive...


If it is DNS:
Check to see that your window's drive is using the same DNS server as your Linux box. Try adding additional DNS servers to resolv. At the University, my rule of thumb is to use 2 internal (University run DNS servers) and one governmental/military. The idea is that if something bizzar happens and the University loses all it's DNS servers, the goverment probably won't.

If not:
Check to see if the gateway is explictly listed. I noticed that with Knoppix, where the gateway is "automagically probed" the machine is slower then on the native linux installation where it's specified in the startup scripts. Also, you may want to set the machine to have a static internal (192.168.*, 172.16.* or 10.0.*) IP, instead of pulling it from the router or DHCP server... May speed somethings up.

Another thing to check is try a traceroute in both Linux and Windows and see if there is some odd stop when running Linux.

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