Hi, On Tuesday 05 August 2008 09:29:12 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > I posted this a while ago, I am facing a strange problem for the last 15 > days. I can not browse the Internet though Linux, where as it works well if > I do it through the 'now' discarded Windows XP. The problem is sometime > Linux does connect me to the Internet. At the same time I can use Pidgin > etc and other Bittorent clients to download distros, but cant browse the > Internet.. Another amazing thing is, while I cannt open any other site, > Microsoft.com opens in a second...so what could be the issue?
DNS I guess. Usually ISP DNS servers are not worth describing. Install a caching dns server like dnsmasq, point your resolv.conf to it and use something like opendns(http://www.opendns.com/) as your upstream servers. Can you ping their dns servers or microsoft.com for that matter.? > My hardware is OK as it could connect to the net through Windows, My distro > is OK as it does connect to net some times (don't forget seamless > connectivity to chat and torrents). Also I have tried other distros, apart > from my primary Ubuntu --- Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mandriva and many more... If it is DNS issue, it is not big enough to warrant a distro. change. Try using opendns first, caching or not. If that helps, use a caching server to speed up the queries. It makes amazing difference in latencies. -- Shridhar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
