[KLUG Members] Internet speed

[Jason Edward Durrett]

Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:41 -0400, Jason Edward Durrett wrote:
>>> It takes a large amount of time to do anything. E.g., sending a simple
>>> email from Evolution takes about 30 seconds and connecting to my mail
>>> server takes about 20 seconds when there is no mail. This doesn't happen
>>> when I'm using Windows (same machine). I get turnaround on send/receive
>>> in about 5 seconds and a new email gets sent in 5 seconds.
>>>
>> Check what you have in /etc/resolv.conf . Sounds like it could be a name
>> resolution problem.
> 
> Here's the file:
> ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
> search domain.invalid
> nameserver 192.168.254.254
> nameserver 192.168.254.254
> 
> The url is that of the DSL modem. Is that what it should be?

No - unless your modem is also a name server.  Your ISP should provide
you with the ip of a valid name server - check your windows network
config because it sounds like that already is correct.

I wonder, however, how your machine is resolving any names at all right now.