From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 13:14:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116A737B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com [24.92.226.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C92243E4A for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:14:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bcsfd204@twcny.rr.com) Received: from twcny.rr.com (syr-66-24-56-65.twcny.rr.com [66.24.56.65]) by mailout5-0.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/RoadRunner 1.20) with ESMTP id gBULELF16614; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:14:22 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E10B72F.2070201@twcny.rr.com> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:14:23 -0500 From: Tom Parquette User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021220 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jeays Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Browser delays References: <3E0FB3E4.90809@rogers.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, I have a similar configuration to yours: RR cable modem, SMC Baracade, FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE and Mozilla. I just called up WWW.CNN.COM and the first page came up in just a couple of seconds. From your description, the only possible differences are: I'm running 4.7-STABLE and Mozilla 1.1 For whatever use you can make of this input... Cheers... Mike Jeays wrote: > I am using Mozilla 1.0 with FreeBSD 4.7. The machine is attached to > a cable-TV high-speed service via an SMC Barricade router. I get > IP addresses assigned by DHCP running on the router. > > I have tried without the router (connecting directly to the > cable modem), and get the same results. > > When browsing certain web sites, including www.cnn.com, there > is about a 90 second delay when I load the first page; subsequent > pages are quite fast. I don't get the same problem with Windows > 2000. > > Any suggestions, please? Do I need to enable a DNS caching server? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message