Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:42:45 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Dean Scott <ScottD@FamilyMeds.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser delays Message-ID: <3E10E805.6010409@rogers.com> References: <CB66C6188874D311A41C0008C7913A8A2E6E26@JULEP>
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Dean Scott wrote: >Mike, > >I don't believe this is a bug at all. I have experienced the same delays on >selected sites. When I monitor the DNS request with Ethereal I find that >the delay is caused by a series of DNS requests using an ipv6 format. Some >sites don't handle these requests correctly. After a timeout on the series >of requests a request is submitted in ipv4 format and the connection is >made. The only thing to do is force FreeBSD to use only ipv4 addresses. > >Dean Scott >Network Engineer >Familymeds, Inc. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Jeays [mailto:mj001@rogers.com] >Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:48 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Browser delays > > > 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 > > > Thanks to all who offered suggestions. I can confirm that Dean and Robin are right. I rebuilt a kernel with INET6 disabled, and the problem has entirely gone away. Great! (All that work just to see CNN's page a few seconds earlier...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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