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On 11/22/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, I'm at my parents' home for Thanksgiving and connected |
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> wirelessly to the family Netgear router via WPA. Page requests |
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> sometimes fail in Firefox immediately, without spending any time |
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> trying to load the page. I suspect a problem connecting to the ISP's |
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> DNS server. How would you troubleshoot this? |
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> - Grant |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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Some basic things to look at: |
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1) Can you successfully ping the ISPs DNS? |
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2) What's in your system's '/etc/resolv.conf'? (Some DSL/Cable modem |
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routers set themselves up as the DNS server/proxy. It's probably to help |
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speed things up, but I've noticed that my system really doesn't like it and |
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needs to have the ISPs DNS servers listed instead). |
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3) Is the system/Firefox set up to use IPv6? (There's a setting in Firefox |
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that allows you to prevent it from trying IPv6 lookups: |
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http://en.opensuse.org/Disable_IPv6_for_Firefox - yes, it's a SUSE site, |
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but the directions should work for all systems) |
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HTH, |
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-Hani |
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"If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will |
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become a falsehood, and you a fanatic." |
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