Re: [gentoo-user] Network configuration: looking up URLs is very slow; how can I fix this?

[Daniel Beecham]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 18:47 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> I bought a new hard drive on Wednesday, and am seriously getting Gentoo
> installed (after doing a trial installation in July).
>
> However....  looking up URL's is very, very slow.  This is most
> noticeable when running emerge.  It is very also noticeable running
> Firefox; the looking up is _much_ slower than on my existing Debian
> sarge system.
>
> Presumably, I need to configure some sort of DNS cache, or proxy, or
> whatever it might be called.  I've looked in
> <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/>, but couldn't find a network configuration
> manual there.
>
> Would somebody give me a pointer, please?  Thanks!
>

Where are your DNS-server, and how does your routes look like?
I'd like to see your /etc/resolv.conf aswell. :-)