[Cialug] Network slowness

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Anthony Jeffries <ajeffri at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, does the OP have an Actiontec DSL modem? I had one
> of those that insisted on listing itself as the first nameserver and it gave
> my Linux machines a several second delay resolving hostnames.

If that's the case and it is the cause of his problem then changing
the dns setting at the router to opendns will greatly improve Linux
performance but will speed up all the computers on the network as
well. (I've done this)

Instead of editing resolv.conf the way to do this in GNOME is to edit
the network preferences (System -> Preferences -> Network connection)
then edit the details for the wired or wirless connection (assuming
wireless) Wireless -> double click the name of the wirless network ->
IPv4 Settings tab -> method DHCP (address only) -> fill in the DNS
servers text field and hit OK.

> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Colin Burnett <cmlburnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Aren't the DNS settings supplied by DHCP?  If I go into
>> > Desktop/Administration/Networking and attempt to change the DNS settings
>> > they get set back to what they are originally.
>>
>> The -R flag to dhcpcd used to prevent it from updating resolv.conf but
>> that seems to no longer be there (in 4.0.2, maybe that was under 3.x).
>>  Looks like 4.x wants `-C resolv.conf` to disable that.
>>
>> So, yes, they generally are updated by DHCP but you can disable that
>> in some fashion.
>>
>>
>> Colin
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