From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GmzGb-0001p0-PP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:04:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAML2IQu016113; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:02:18 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAML0Ckm028314 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:00:12 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so285798ugc for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:00:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=NW4Jmll2MK+fOAlyeMioWqTICUuMkmSFdu5qqTsRwJSYq+lAVnMF1ypXQHnb0jwRJiLYUtMo+eK0loZdOlCz76g3HpRE10sy6xKsdFThYM1umZQ7eysxM4ZOJ78sGsVnxSx6wpuv/LowuSHDnSS/JiLnahM0fXgBZKmWFFQRz0M= Received: by 10.78.201.2 with SMTP id y2mr8258222huf.1164229211738; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.100.7 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:00:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:00:11 -0700 From: "Hani Duwaik" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting my parents' connection In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10611221204q53527477se3e93842d0ffa56f@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_72544_1656684.1164229211700" References: <49bf44f10611221204q53527477se3e93842d0ffa56f@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 38019414-6e83-4619-a6be-c5ce56c86870 X-Archives-Hash: b654c34412694442a28b9a4a1a804b7e ------=_Part_72544_1656684.1164229211700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 11/22/06, Grant wrote: > > Hello, I'm at my parents' home for Thanksgiving and connected > wirelessly to the family Netgear router via WPA. Page requests > sometimes fail in Firefox immediately, without spending any time > trying to load the page. I suspect a problem connecting to the ISP's > DNS server. How would you troubleshoot this? > > - Grant > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Some basic things to look at: 1) Can you successfully ping the ISPs DNS? 2) What's in your system's '/etc/resolv.conf'? (Some DSL/Cable modem routers set themselves up as the DNS server/proxy. It's probably to help speed things up, but I've noticed that my system really doesn't like it and needs to have the ISPs DNS servers listed instead). 3) Is the system/Firefox set up to use IPv6? (There's a setting in Firefox that allows you to prevent it from trying IPv6 lookups: http://en.opensuse.org/Disable_IPv6_for_Firefox - yes, it's a SUSE site, but the directions should work for all systems) HTH, -Hani -- "If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic." ------=_Part_72544_1656684.1164229211700 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 11/22/06, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I'm at my parents' home for Thanksgiving and connected
wirelessly to the family Netgear router via WPA.  Page requests
sometimes fail in Firefox immediately, without spending any time
trying to load the page.  I suspect a problem connecting to the ISP's
DNS server.  How would you troubleshoot this?

- Grant
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list


Some basic things to look at:

1) Can you successfully ping the ISPs DNS?
2) What's in your system's '/etc/resolv.conf'?   (Some DSL/Cable modem routers set themselves up as the DNS server/proxy.  It's probably to help speed things up, but I've noticed that my system really doesn't like it and needs to have the ISPs DNS servers listed instead).
3) Is the system/Firefox set up to use IPv6?  (There's a setting in Firefox that allows you to prevent it from trying IPv6 lookups: http://en.opensuse.org/Disable_IPv6_for_Firefox   - yes, it's a SUSE site, but the directions should work for all systems)

HTH,

-Hani


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