Firefox 3.5b4 in FC11 slow in looking up web sites

[BlownCPU]

Hi,

I have recently installed FC11 (fc10.59 from live cd 64bit) and found that Firefox 3.5b4 is slow in looking up web sites.
Every time I go to a web site at the bottom of Firefox it says "Looking up www.google...." annd this can take around 3-5 seconds sometimes more.
If I do the same search on my FC9 machine which is a slower machine which uses Fifefox 2 it is almost instant, the looking up caption is hardly noticeable.

My DNS is through my router at 192.168.1.1, both systems are configured the same.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Cheers,

Blown CPU

Moved to F11 Alpha/Beta Discussion.

Wayne

[YeOK]

Originally Posted by BlownCPU

Hi,

I have recently installed FC11 (fc10.59 from live cd 64bit) and found that Firefox 3.5b4 is slow in looking up web sites.
Every time I go to a web site at the bottom of Firefox it says "Looking up www.google...." annd this can take around 3-5 seconds sometimes more.
If I do the same search on my FC9 machine which is a slower machine which uses Fifefox 2 it is almost instant, the looking up caption is hardly noticeable.

My DNS is through my router at 192.168.1.1, both systems are configured the same.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Cheers,

Blown CPU

I'm posting this from F11 Firefox 3.5 now and here its working fine. I did how ever find my DNS lookups where slow on first install but I've used DNS cache for a few years, and on setting it up my problem's where solved.

You should check 'about:config' in firefox for

network.dns.disableIPv6

and make sure its set to 'true'. It could be the IPv6 look up's slowing you down.

If your problem continues, try install

yum install bind-utils

then try the dig command to see how long a DNS look up is taking,

dig google.co.uk

this should show you how long a DNS look up takes. If could be a network issue. On my machine the above command looks like;

dig google.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.6.1b1-RedHat-9.6.1-0.3.b1.fc11 <<>> google.co.uk
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61718
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;google.co.uk.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
google.co.uk.		10	IN	A	216.239.59.104
google.co.uk.		10	IN	A	72.14.221.104
google.co.uk.		10	IN	A	74.125.77.104

;; Query time: 24 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon May 18 12:29:55 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 78

If you would like to use DNS cache a good HowTo I use is This one (opensource.com)

[SlowJet]

Originally Posted by BlownCPU

Hi,

I have recently installed FC11 (fc10.59 from live cd 64bit) and found that Firefox 3.5b4 is slow in looking up web sites.
Every time I go to a web site at the bottom of Firefox it says "Looking up www.google...." annd this can take around 3-5 seconds sometimes more.
If I do the same search on my FC9 machine which is a slower machine which uses Fifefox 2 it is almost instant, the looking up caption is hardly noticeable.

My DNS is through my router at 192.168.1.1, both systems are configured the same.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Cheers,

Blown CPU

Do you have the updates-testing ?
yum clean all --enablerepo=updates-testing
yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing

There is dhcp client for ip4 and 6 dated May 12th.
When did you upgrade and how?
Only since the 14th has it installed ok and before that it was sometime back.
You need those updates before you can say there is a problem.

SJ

[BlownCPU]

YeOK & SJ

Thanks for the advice and network.dns.disableIPv6 was the problem on my system for the delay, it now works fast
I did dig just to check and get 37ms, happy with that.

SJ:
I installed my FC11 on 15th with all updates done.
I used the word problem to say that there is something up with my system, I did not mean it to sound as a global FC11 problem.

Cheers,

a happy BlownCPU