ubuntu host web access is slower than windows guest vm

[Matt Graham]

> Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 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 sid
From: Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com>
> Well I was using Chromium but I opened firefox and tried that.
> Unfortunately that didn't make a difference.

What's in /etc/resolv.conf on the Ubuntu box?  How does it differ from
whatever the equivalent is on the 'Doze VM?  If resolv.conf contains

search example.com
nameserver 1.2.3.4
nameserver 5.6.7.8

...then can you do "dig crow202.org 1.2.3.4" and "dig crow202.org 5.6.7.8" and
get fast responses from both?  If one nameserver is returning quickly and one
isn't returning at all, this could cause dumb things.  IIRC, 'Doze boxes avoid
using a second nameserver if one exists, while Linux machines will use a
second and third.  If a second nameserver is in the resolv.conf but isn't
*responding*, you could get long timeouts for DNS on Linux boxes for seemingly
inexplicable reasons.

It also might be worth making sure that there aren't any iptables rules
blocking port 53.  This is unlikely, but easy to check.

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