Re: Few Websites loading with ADSL

From: Daniel James (wastebasket_at_nospam.aaisp.org)
Date: 09/17/03


Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:19:56 +0100

In article news:<czOdnQU2nrzkzPqiXTWJjQ@fireflyuk.net>, Darren
Harmon wrote:
> It seems only a very small handfull of websites load with my ADSL
> connection. Most just stall without loading anything.

I've seen that happen when DNS is configured wrongly and the client
can't resolve a URL to an IP address. Windows seems to be more lax
about checking responses to DNS requests than linux, and apparently
similar configurations can work OK for Windows and not for linux.

Is DNS lookup working for these sites?

Does your /etc/resolv.conf look right? (You may have set this using
Yast2 rather directly.)

What happens if you try a DNS lookup for one of the unresponsive
sites with dig? i.e. do:

  dig nameserver site-url
  
Cheers,
 Daniel.
 



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