Re: Very slow DNS lookup after Woody
You haven't setup any firewall rules with iptables by chance?
On Thursday 08 August 2002 12:25 pm, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
> I just upgraded to Woody and have been having problems with DNS
> lookup. Resolving names is excruciatingly slow, even for local
> host:
>
> % telnet localhost 80 [very long pause...]
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> It's making web browsing very slow. I have not done anything to the
> system except apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade and installing
> the new galeon package.
>
> Note, I'm not running a DNS server. The problem is with name
> resolution from other servers (and even entries in /etc/hosts).
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
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