Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:10:30 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: danny_browne@eircom.net Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gnome Ethernet Very Slow Message-ID: <419FA4B6.8010705@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041120132906.4153043D55@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20041120132906.4153043D55@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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>>Danny Browne wrote: >> >> >> >>>Basically my internet connection is very very slow whe using gnome browsers (or any app). but its a DSL line, and its as fast as it should be when downlaoding something from teminal??? >>> >>>Free BSD 4.10 i386 >>>Gnome 2.8 >>>Realtek ethernet card >>> >>>?? >>> >>>Any ideas? >>> >>> >>> >>Tim <niyamas@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>Check your DNS settings, make sure resolv.conf points to a valid DNS >>server that you can access. I had the same problem, turned out I >>mistyped my DNS server. Console stuff (ftp, ping, telnet, etc) worked >>fine, but couldn't get a browser to do a darn thing. >> >> Danny Browne wrote: >what sholud reslov.conf & hosts have for gnome to acces the router/internet properly? > >resolv.conf just has: > >nameserver 192.168.1.254 > >hosts has: > >::1 localhost localhost.my.domain >127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain >192.168.1.3 VaioBSD VaioBSD.eircom.net Can you do a lookup against that nameserver? Something like: % nslookup - 192.168.1.254 Default Server: foobar.yournetwork.com Address: 192.168.1.254 > yahoo.com Server: foobar.yournetwork.com Address: 192.168.1.254 Non-authoritative answer: Name: yahoo.com Addresses: 66.94.234.13, 216.109.112.135 > exit I'd be interested in know whether or not that work before hazarding any other guesses. Kevin Kinsey
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