Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:09 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First thing that comes to mind is DNS; Has your DNS servers changed and you have them hardcoded in /etc/resolv.conf or similar ? Nope - no such file. Are the seamonkey/firefox browsers going through a proxy ? Nope - direct

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-14 Thread James A. Peltier
Mark Hull-Richter wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:09 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First thing that comes to mind is DNS; Has your DNS servers changed and you have them hardcoded in /etc/resolv.conf or similar ? Nope - no such file. Are the seamonkey/firefox browsers going through a proxy

RE: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-14 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:54 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: 3 possible scenarios: 1) DNS not properly configured Make sure your resolv.conf is properly configured, if you are doing DHCP look into having your resolv.conf set through it, if you are using PPPOE you can have the ppp daemon

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-14 Thread John R Pierce
Mark Hull-Richter wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:54 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: 3 possible scenarios: 1) DNS not properly configured Make sure your resolv.conf is properly configured, if you are doing DHCP look into having your resolv.conf set through it, if you are using PPPOE you

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-14 Thread centos
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:48:19 -0800 James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope - no such file. Are the seamonkey/firefox browsers going through a proxy ? Nope - direct connect. Have you disabled ipv6 in Firefox? It's a well know behaviour of Firefox. about:config

RE: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mark Hull-Richter wrote: On Nov 14, 2007 12:06 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no /etc/resolv.conf means no DNS name resolution. are you SURE of this? its `resolv` without an e. Yeah - I need new glasses Thanks. If you are doing pppoe (which I think you

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Nov 12, 2007 9:58 PM, Mark Hull-Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I go back to my CentOS SeaMonkey and clear the cache and the history. I'm not sure what else to do, though, because that didn't solve the problem, and Firefox is as slow as my SeaMonkey. Any suggestions? Are there

RE: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mark Hull-Richter wrote: I have ATT (formerly SBC) DSL for my primary internet connection here, and tonight it has been exceptionally, extraordinarily S - L - O - W Pages that normally load in, at most, seconds, are taking several minutes to locate, even common, frequent access

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-13 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:44:48 -0800 Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: selectively deleting cnn.com cookies (in order of my guess at their usefulness from least toward most) eventually revived it. Why not delete them all? cnn.com seems to work fine without being allowed to set cookies on

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-13 Thread Steven Vishoot
--- Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:44:48 -0800 Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: selectively deleting cnn.com cookies (in order of my guess at their usefulness from least toward most) eventually revived it. Why not delete them all? cnn.com seems to

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-13 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Nov 13, 2007 11:46 AM, Steven Vishoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem is between keyboard and chair. :-D Yeah, my blasted watch is keeping too accurate time these days ;^) No, wait! I have GOT to stop handling those bits manually! ;^) Thanks for the good thoughts! mhr

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message - From: Mark Hull-Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:58:01 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane Subject: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections? I have ATT (formerly SBC) DSL for my primary