On 11/22/2011 06:25 PM, wes wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Benjamin Kerensa<[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 11/22/2011 11:49 AM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >>> When I send an e-mail it takes many seconds for the mail to leave my >>>> desktop >> If anything your DNS lookups are slow or perhaps >> there is a issue on the server >> that handles SMTP. >> > I agree that this feels like a DNS problem. The router probably assigned > itself (192.168.x.1) as the DNS server for all the devices on your network. > So it's acting as a recursive DNS server, and it may be doing so slowly. > The way to test this is to override it, have your machine use comcast's DNS > servers directly. You would need to edit /etc/resolv.conf to accomplish > this.
Sure enough. Here's the contents of my /etc/resolv.conf: # Generated by NetworkManager domain comcast.net search comcast.net nameserver 192.168.0.1 I see that this is a generated file. I assume that means I need to use NetworkManager to make the change. The next question is how do I access Network Manager? I find two different tools. In System > Administration I find Network Tools, and in System > Preferences I find Network Connections and Network Proxy. I've never used Proxy settings before so I assume that's not the one. There is no information listed on any of the tabs in Network Connections, so that doesn't seem to be correct, either. The only tab that seems relevant in Network Tools is Devices, but that just appears to provide IP Information rather than letting me change anything. Googling I see a lot of references to replacing Network Manager with Wicd. Would that be a better way to go? Thanks for the info. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
