On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 11:09 -0700,
joe@actionline.com wrote:
> .
> First, the background:
>
> One problem has led to another and another as I have been trying
> for three weeks to get my system rebuilt after it "crashed".
> I am preparing a "how-to" to recap everything I've needed to do
> to get everything put back together and working again, but I now have
> a new problem that I need to get fixed before I continue rebuilding.
>
> Thanks to an incredible amount of excellent (and very patient) help
> especially from Eric Shubes and from several other PLUG friends,
> I now have a fresh new installation of Mandriva 2006 working on a
> new 100-gig hard disk. (Please, no comments about Mandriva as it
> is the *only* distro on which I can get Win4Lin to work with win98
> which is essential for my work.)
>
> We finally got Qwest DSL working via a new 2Wire modem/router.
> When booting my main desktop computer (eth-wire-connected) with
> a Knoppix live CD, the DSL connection works fine and fast. And,
> with my dual-boot laptop, I have a good (54-Mbps) wireless
> connection when booting with WinXP. I have not yet been able
> to get a wireless connection when booted with my Linux partition.
>
> Now the problem:
>
> When I boot up the new Mandriva installation on the hard disk
> (instead of booting the Knoppix CD), I have a DHCP Internet
> connection, but it is slower than molasses. (I have not yet
> installed Win4Lin, so that is not a factor.) As an example,
> when I connect either via wireless on the laptop or via Knoppix
> live CD on the desktop, and access usatoday.com, their website
> pops up in 3 seconds. When I access the same website with my
> desktop box with the new Mandriva installation, it takes more
> than 30 seconds before the first page begins to appear and a
> total of 45 seconds before it finishes loading.
>
> I called 2Wire (excellent technical support) and they thoroughly
> checked everything and informed me that everything in the physical
> connection is fine, the modem is fine, and the Qwest connection is
> okay (just a few errors, "usual" for Qwest). They also said that
> both browsers I am using are fine (Firefox and Konqueror), so the
> problem definitely has to be with my system's software -- perhaps
> something in configuration, a firewall, perhaps proxy settings,
> or some interferring program.
>
> How can I resolve this?
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does this help (from release notes for Mandriva 2006)
http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux2006Errata#Slow_or_unreliable_DNS_lookups_b
(make sure you reboot after making the change)
Craig
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