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.
I found the same problem with Mozilla-family browsers using 8.2. Extensive googling finally turned up http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70213 and http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135724#c24. Briefly 1) these browsers lack reentrant/async DNS lookup, so a site that requires multiple DNS lookups (perhaps for ads) won't load until each has returned. 2) Suse 8.2 specifically turns on IPv6, and some servers can't cope with these requests. You don't say which cache you used, but I suggest you try Squid, which caches (inter alia) the DNS information. For me, this makes mozilla-based browsers like Firebird work as fast as IE. As far as I recall, I just installed it as it came, without any configuration (though you do have to tell your browser to use it as a proxy, localhost port 3128, and you may have to adjust your firewall). The other solution is to use Opera, which worked at full speed on my system. Perhaps worth trying, just to prove that this *is* the problem, though the choice of ads or cash made me go for the first method. Hope this helps. David Hart