[lug] wget, Firefox, connections

[Dean Brissinger]

On Wednesday, November 09, 2005 1:06 PM Eric Johnson wrote:

> Side question for anyone:  I've been noticing that Firefox on FC4 at
> home is very slow at retrieving objects coming from domains that
> begin with anything other than "www."  I suspect the problem is in
> making the connection, since when data finally flows, it flows
> quickly.  IE on Windoze seems to be fine, so I don't think it's a QoS
> issue with the ISP.     

	I actually found FC3 and FC4 had a large number of performance
bottlenecks.  Your specific problem sounds like a failed DNS though.  Check
/etc/resolv.conf and make sure your DNS servers are up and resolving.  Since
Windows is working try matching the two.