ubuntu host web access is slower than windows guest vm

James Mcphee jmcphe at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 09:55:06 MST 2011


Try disabling ipv6 in the browser.  about:config, search for ipv6, and set
disable to true.

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I used to lurk/participate a long time ago. I'm having an ubuntu related
> problem which I haven't been able to figure out or find and answer for. I
> have an ubuntu 11.04 64bit machine which I use to host a windows 7 64bit vm.
> This LAN here is primarily a windows environment. The problem is that web
> access is excessively slow from the ubuntu host but nice & fast on the
> windows vm. Actually, I also cannot access any local network machines by DNS
> name which tells me there is a DNS problem. Again, this is only on the
> Ubuntu side; the windows vm works fine. I tried using the google nameservers
> for ubuntu but that doesn't make a difference that I can tell. I also don't
> see the problem by comparing the network config for the windows vm and
> ubuntu. Oh, and I did make sure ipv6 is disabled because we aren't using it
> here.
>
>   I would really appreciate any help with this. Let me know what
> information I should post if anyone cares to help figure this out.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>
>
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