FireFox & Mozilla based Web Browsers

[John Summerfied]

Ali Helmy wrote:
> ok, here is what happened when i typed the command:
> 
> [ahelmy at localhost ~]$ time host google.com
> google.com has address 72.14.207.99
> ;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> 
> real    0m10.087s
> user    0m0.008s
> sys     0m0.016s
> 
> So, what does that tell me?
Umm. It's slow?
Ask google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Message+parser+reports+malformed+message+packet%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

You can read it, by dialup is still being severly flogged.
> 
> PS: i dont have a dial-up screen, i connect via my network
Whatever "my network" is. I mentioned dialup to show the long end of 
what the response time might be, ADSL for a good time.

> 
> On 12/28/05, John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>>Ali Helmy wrote:
>>
>>>One more thing, when i type in an IP into the browser location bar
>>>(ie: http://204.71.200.67/) for yahoo for example the browser connects
>>>correclty...
>>>It looks like a nameserver problem.
>>
>>
>>Try this command:
>>time host google.com
>>
>>Post the results. Here are two examples. The first is a very busy
>>dialup, and timeouts are common. The second's on a good adsl line.
>>[summer at ns ~]$ time host google.com
>>google.com has address 64.233.187.99
>>google.com has address 72.14.207.99
>>
>>real    0m5.717s
>>user    0m0.002s
>>sys     0m0.005s
>>[summer at ns ~]$
>>[summer at echidna ~]$ time host google.com
>>google.com has address 64.233.187.99
>>google.com has address 72.14.207.99
>>
>>real    0m0.343s
>>user    0m0.019s
>>sys     0m0.038s
>>[summer at echidna ~]$
>>
>>
>>Also, try explicitly using your IAP's DNS. The box that does the dial in
>>should have one or two.
>>
>>host google.com 66.249.83.114
>>Note 66.249.83.114 probably won't work, change it to your IAP's.
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>Cheers
>>John
>>
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> 
> 
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