When you go to any particular website, is there sometimes a lengthy delay?

[Deja Q]

I've got high speed dsl (7MB DOWN/1MB UP) and when I click on a link, often there's this pause that's annoying as hell... and it can be for any web page in particular.

[kick-ass-bob]

1. sometimes there are traffic jams on the internet

it's not always like an open highway, sometimes there is just too much demand on certain nodes.

[seeker4ever]

2. I have a theory...

spyware.

When I do a clean format and reinstall of WinXP I get quick site loads. After a while they start getting sticky.

[Deja Q]

3. I'm using Linux. Very recently reformatted too.

:evilgrin:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Name resolution

Your ISP's DNS servers may not be up to snuff. Or yours -- see if you're running the named daemon and there's a line like that in /etc/resolv.conf -

nameserver 127.0.0.1

If there is, you may want to get rid of it. Maybe named isn't running.

Or the other way around -- running named and adding this line may improve things.

What's your distro?

[Deja Q]

5. It happens on both SuSE 9.,3 and Fedora Core 4... here's the resolv.conf

nameserver (address 1)
nameserver (address 2)
search localdomain


127.0.0.1 was not one of the addresses given. :(

I looked at the gnome system monitor; named isn't running either.

Thanks!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. You're not using a local named, and that's OK. Try this:

Include these two lines in /etc/modprobe.conf and then reboot. Sometimes name resolution takes long because the system is trying IPv6.

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Then reboot.

[sundog]

7. maybe evil java websites

i hate java web sites :grr: