I wanted to post the solution in case anyone else runs into this. I was starting to think it was because I was running 64 bit Ubuntu and maybe there was a driver problem with my NIC. Instead I found the answer here:<div><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1272161">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1272161</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>Edit nsswitch.conf and change hosts setting to &quot;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">files mdns4 [NOTFOUND=return] dns</span>&quot;</div>

<div><br></div><div>After a reboot, web on the ubuntu side performed up to expectations.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-j</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>