I've seen this when no gateway IP address was set up in YaST. I have two nets at home, one for business use and one for home use. Each net has a separate drop from Time Warner Cable, with the business net having fixed IP address service. For the home net, I use a D-Link wireless router/switch/firewall (about $75). The D-Link box gets the IP from the cable company, and then I set the gateway on the home net Linux box to 192.168.0.1 (this is the default private network address on the LAN side of the D-Link box; I've changed it to something else...) On the business net, the gateway IP address is fixed, and is of course provided by the cable company. Bottom Line, get a D-Link or LinkSys cable modem/router/switch and I'll wager that your problem will disappear. Good luck! L. Mark Stone President Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street, 5th Floor Portland, ME 04107 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Cell: (917) 597-2057 Email: LMStone@RNoME.com mailto:LMStone@RNoME.com Web: http://www.RNoME.com http://www.RNoME.com/ |-----Original Message----- |From: wgerrard [mailto:wgerrard@nc.rr.com] |Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:58 AM |To: suse-linux-e@suse.com |Subject: [SLE] Why Very Slow DNS on 8.2, But Not on WinXP? | | |Anyone know why name resolution using my cable provider's |nameservers is |impossibly slow on a standard untweaked 8.2 install, but quite |fast with |WinXP on the same machine, same provider, same nameservers? | |I see the same slowness whether or not my firewall is running, and |whether or not I'm running a local cacheing nameserver. | |Thanks. | | | | | |-- |Check the headers for your unsubscription address |For additional commands send e-mail to |suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com