[lug] wget, Firefox, connections

[Michael Belanger]

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Dean Brissinger wrote:
> 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.
> 

Oh yes.. I found I had to use Qwest's DNS instead of my router's for
some reason.  Don't know if it was because the router/modem sucks or
because linux doesn't like talking to my router/modem (perhaps both).

Windows never gave me that problem.

I still lose networking (no more eth0) if I reboot/powercycle the modem.
 Can't get it back unless I reboot.

Argh.. but them there are tangents.

- -M
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