On Wed 11 Jun 2008 19:38:56 NZST +1200, David Merriman wrote: > 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.
Your DNS lookups are pathetically slow. The guilty party could be your adsl gizmo, or your ISP's name server. (Why am I thinking xtra here?) Are you running nscd? It's SUSE default install though it may no longer be started by default. Configure your box to use a different name server (not your gizmo's and not your ISP's). Try opendns.com or go hunting around. Of course any decent firewall has DNS forwarding/caching by default, though if the trouble is outside of your computer this won't reduce the initial wait. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
