Problems resolving internet addresses

[Tony Arnold]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 23:36 +0100, scsimodo wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
> Two days ago I installed Ubuntu an discovered that this is the most
> perfect distro out there. But I have one annoying problem. Every time I
> try to access an internet site via Firefox I have a 3-10 seconds delay
> until address resolving works. (same in Thunderbird). Address resolving
> works fine in Fedora/W2K, so I assume networking hardware (NE2000
> compatible) is OK.
> 
> Tried different DNS-Server settings but still no luck.
> 
> Anyone with the same problem? Or am I doing a simple newbie mistake?

I had a similar problem, but it wasn't due to IPV6. It seems my DNS
settings included a domain search list, and my conclusion was that any
name look up was done by first appending what was in the search list,
which of course fails/times out and eventually it looks up the name on
its own.

Have you tried going to a site using its IP address literally? I had the
same problem with telnet, and telnet'ing with an IP address was
instantaneous, where with the name it took several seconds.

I kind of solved it by removing the entries in the search domains list
in Network Setting dialogue box. However, the list seems to come back
when I reboot!

Regards,
Tony.
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