On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:18:16PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > At Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:59:49 +0000 Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi, Daniel, > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 08:50:13PM +0200, Daniel Beecham wrote: > >> > However.... looking up URL's is very, very slow. This is most > >> > noticeable when running emerge. It is very also noticeable running > >> > Firefox; the looking up is _much_ slower than on my existing Debian > >> > sarge system. > >> > Presumably, I need to configure some sort of DNS cache, or proxy, or > >> > whatever it might be called. I've looked in > >> > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/>, but couldn't find a network > >> > configuration manual there. > >> > Would somebody give me a pointer, please? Thanks! > >> Where are your DNS-server, and how does your routes look like? > >> I'd like to see your /etc/resolv.conf aswell. :-) > > /etc/resolv.conf: > > ######################################################################### > > # Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0 > > search Speedport_W_700V > > nameserver 192.168.2.1 > > ######################################################################### > > [translation: A router/DSL modem (called "Speedport") at local address > > 192.168.2.1.] > > I do # route (as root), and get this: > > ######################################################################### > > Kernel IP routing table > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > > Iface > > 192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > > default speedport.ip 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > ######################################################################### > > Er, where is my DNS-server? That's the entry in resolv.conf, isn't it, > > i.e. the router at 192.168.2.1? > That is the dns for your local lan. You need the higher level dsn > server, the one your router uses. Log into your router via a browser > and find out. <rant mode> Sorry, it's difficult. My router, and its ~160 pages of doku are utter crap. The configuration program (over a web browser ) explodes things in my face each time the mouse moves, and I can't even guess what the designer was smoking when he grouped the various items together. It's impossible (for me, at least) to get a mental picture of what's going on. Hidden in the middle of the dumbed-down doku, it says that the router "must use the DynDNS service of some provider, e.g. <URL 1> or <URL 2>. Details of how to use a particular service can be found on the corresponding web page.", the sort of thing that makes me scream. And that's it. There is nothing there to say "the address of the actual name server in use is secret", or how you actually find it. </rant mode> Anyhow, it is surely not the router setup which is the problem - name lookup works fine under my Debian sarge system. > allan -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
