Internet slow starting speed

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Jun 28 16:49:26 UTC 2005


Jacques-Andre Boulay writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing a problem when using my web browser (firefox, opera or
> konqueror) or my mail client (evolution): the internet initiating
> process is very slow.  For example, each time I enter a new url in
> firefox, its take a lot of time (7-8 sec) to load the new webpage.  On
> the other side, when I'm downloading a big file with it, the download
> speed is normal (in comparaison with windows xp) after the completion of
> the initiating process is done.
> 
> Somebody have an idea of what I could do to solve this problem?  I know
> that rebuilding the kernel should help but is there other ways to solve
> it?

You probably have problems with DNS resolution.

Check your /etc/resolv.conf and verify the correct IP addresses of your DNS 
servers.

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