On 10/11/2011 03:51 PM, join_doe wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropiate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > About a couple of weeks ago i updated my system. Cant remember the > exact time og the packages installed. > At some point after the update I noticed that browsing the web was > extremely slow. At first i thought it was my connection and so started testing > its download speed - I have 20mb connection. > It turned out thought the download speed was fine. > What i discovered was that the initial connection to a site was what > took soooo long. Once the page was loaded navigating the site went at normal > speed. > However as soon at one navigated to another domain then the initial > loading would take for ever.
This smells very much like a problem with delayed/laggy DNS lookups, and
not a problem with the web browser.
Is it possible that you have two (or more) nameservers listed in
/etc/resolv.conf, and one (or more) of them is unresponsive?
> I've since uninstalled iceweasel and epiphany out of frustration, and
> Im now using chrome which does not have the proble - pages load within a
> second, whereas iceweasel takes about 10 secs or more.
So 10 seconds is "unbearably slow" now? wow i feel old :)
hth,
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