Slow internet web surfing painful (solved) - PC-BSD Forums

tommyjohn · #1 07-26-2006, 01:48 AM

I cant believe it surfing the web is painful using pc-bsd the web pages take between 1 minute or 30 seconds to load most of the time 1 minute.
my win xp home box is moving right along with no problems.i have used konqueror,opera and firefox with the same results 1 minute loading of web pages.the pc-bsd and win xp box are behind smoothwall firewall and are connected to a switch.my isp is earthlink dsl.someone help me please!.

mal.exe · #2 07-26-2006, 02:03 AM

Can you ping http://www.pcbsd.org with both your pcbsd box, and the windows box. Then compare the results

antik · #3 07-26-2006, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by tommyjohn

I cant believe it surfing the web is painful using pc-bsd the web pages take between 1 minute or 30 seconds to load most of the time 1 minute.
my win xp home box is moving right along with no problems.i have used konqueror,opera and firefox with the same results 1 minute loading of web pages.the pc-bsd and win xp box are behind smoothwall firewall and are connected to a switch.my isp is earthlink dsl.someone help me please!.

This is DNS problem I think. Look at /etc/resolv.conf file and ping hosts found there. If first host is not pingable, then second one is used after 60 seconds of timeout. Delete first one or check your smoothwall firewall dns/dhcp config.

DragnLord · #4 07-26-2006, 12:41 PM

if you connect through a router:
kill the running dhclient processes (there are 2, one as root, one as _dhcp)

Code:

ps aux | grep dhc

get the router's nameservers (primary and secondary)
edit /etc/resolv.conf to include your isp's nameservers at the top of the list

my resolv.conf that works great through earthlink:

Code:

nameserver 208.33.159.39
nameserver 199.2.252.10

tommyjohn · #5 07-26-2006, 08:41 PM

I changed the nameserver put the primary to the top now it seems pc-bsd web surfing is faster than my win xp box that is fine with me. Thanks!

Thulemanden · #6 08-03-2006, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by tommyjohn

I cant believe it surfing the web is painful using pc-bsd the web pages take between 1 minute or 30 seconds to load most of the time 1 minute.

Try using Opera over Konqueror.

Apatewna · #7 08-05-2006, 06:47 PM

This is one of the things that was clarified to me by an MS admin.

When you are specifying multiple DNS servers on your configuration, you cannot expect yourself to be fully safe over name resolution issues.

The second/third/fourth DNS server will ONLY be contacted, IF the primary DNS server is not responding. Your client WILL NOT ask all the DNS servers in a row until it gets an answer that it likes (ie resolving a domain name).

On windows machines after changing the DNS entries always do a

Code:

 c:\> ipconfig/flushdns

to clear the local DNS cache.

I recently had to switch my DNS entries because of the same behaviour. Many providers have multiple DNS servers scattered arround the geographical area of a country, for faster access. It would be wise to use closest DNS servers.