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. :-)
