On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 19:38 +1200, David Merriman wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm looking for a way to cache website addresses to speed up page > finding and loading. I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14 on SuSE 10.3, with a > D-Link DSL-502T broadband modem and D-Link DI-524UP wireless router > (though I'm plugged directly into that, not wireless). > > At the moment, whenever I select a webpage from Firefox's bookmarks, or > type in a URL, it takes approximately 10 seconds before the IP address > is found, and the page starts loading. Firefox's status bar says > "Looking up Slashdot.org..." (or whatever) for that long, before the > page starts loading.
Who is your ISP? What DNS nameservers do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? It may be easily fixed by checking that you are using the correct nameservers and / or changing to a faster one.
