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Hi guys, I installed FC6 64bit yesterday, i can surf internet but just few default websites, Cannot open even like: yahoo.com or google.com, the speed is very very very slow..
1. DNS should be set by your provider. You should need to do any manual configuration with this. You get the DNS IP's with your DHCP address assignment. If you made a setting change on this it could be that you broke it yourself. Accept the defaults.
2. Disable DNS cacheing on your router. You may have this enabled and it will slow down the name resolution for your PC.
You may want to post back the the output of the following command as well:
cat /etc/resolv.conf
The above file will have your DNS server addresses. If your provider is having problems this may be the problem you're experiencing as well. Is your only problem on Linux or is Windows affected too?
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