From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B19C138CC5 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:36:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1EE8E097A; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:36:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3010E096F for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YaLFn-0004Nt-4a for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:36:07 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0? Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:36:05 +0000 Message-ID: <20990836.V2qUBByKlg@wstn> Organization: Society for Retired Gentlefolk User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.18.9-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <201503240653.09882.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <20150320223759.163e02de@sepulchrave.remarqs> <201503240653.09882.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 396bd654-e6c9-4a95-96d2-624e74507c98 X-Archives-Hash: a964a91ff097ca588b2a505ca687aeea On Tuesday 24 March 2015 06:52:58 Mick wrote: > Next time your router starts playing up, use nslookup and perhaps dig to > query your router's DNS repeater, your ISPs resolvers and any other 3rd > party DNS servers; e.g. openDNS, Google, or a DNS server from here: > > http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110407_top_public_dns_resolvers_compared/ > > so that you can draw comparisons to help you determine where the problem > lies. If it is your router, you can ask your ISP to replace it. > > If the ISP is not cooperating could perhaps run your own local DNS > resolver? I do that here. Dnsmasq runs on a little box on the LAN and speeds up the whole Internet experience. It didn't help though when my router started misbehaving, as it still had to forward some queries and the router sat on those. It was simple enough to reboot the router, once I'd found that was needed. -- Rgds Peter.