Browser speed issue

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Dick Dowdell <dick.dowdell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using a Sony VAIO W series netbook dual booting Lucid and Win 7 Pro.  I
> use Firefox and Chrome on both installations.  Browser response is near
> instantaneous on Win 7 but mush slower on Ubuntu.  It's not a problem with
> connection speed.  It seems that on Ubuntu the browsers spend most of their
> time doing DNS lookups, while on Win 7, rrecent DNS responses are cached.
> Does anyone know what's going on?

If its that noticeable, your DNS server is sick, tired and/or hungry.
Find another one. That's the core problem.

Secondly, I am pretty sure recent versions of Chrome (and maybe FF) do
indeed cache DNS on Linux. I am using the alpha version of google
chrome, and I am 99% sure there is some DNS caching going on.

Also, its trivial to install a caching DNS server in Linux, something
like 'sudo apt-get install bind9' or somesuch, which might also
workaround the server problem.

Caching DNS has good and bad aspects. I tend to not prefer that kind
of thing in favor of fast server response times.

-- 
Hal