Re: [SLUG] slow web browsing

From: Jim Forte (james@magna.net)
Date: Sat Feb 06 2010 - 09:11:24 EST


I would say its DNS and/or your local address thayt you are sending to is going to the public address which can make some routing situations go slow.

You running a dns cache on the ff machine? Try dnamasq

------Original Message------
From: Eben King
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Subject: [SLUG] slow web browsing
Sent: Feb 6, 2010 12:01 AM

There's a pause before each web link is resolved. I see lagginess each time
I take a link or go to a new address. For instance, it takes FF 4-5 seconds
to display http://royalty.mine.nu:81, which is served by this computer.
And each link thereon takes several seconds to follow. OK, I thought, it
could be thttpd or FF is slow. But http://localhost (which is the same
page) displays almost instantly. I'm guessing, the chosen DNS server defers
to its next-in-line each time, and never caches anything? /etc/resolv.conf
has

search home
nameserver 192.168.42.33

*.33 is my router, which runs DD-WRT. It has in Setup/Basic Setup,

in the "Router IP" box,

Local DNS 0.0.0.0

and in the "Network Address Server Settings (DHCP)" box,

Static DNS 1 0.0.0.0
Static DNS 2 0.0.0.0
Static DNS 3 0.0.0.0

In Status/WAN, it has

DNS 1 68.238.112.12
DNS 2 68.238.0.12
DNS 3

so it's getting them from _somewhere_. Curiously, I get

eben@pc:~$ time wget -q -O - royalty.mine.nu:81/index.html > /dev/null

real 0m0.056s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s

which indicates "not DNS" to me.

What should I do to fix this?

-- 
-eben    QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP    royalty.mine.nu:81
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