Slackware IP resolution time period problem
 

Hello,
I'm new to Slackware and I have noticed that when I try to surf the web the "Resolving host (insert host here)...." message in the browser takes a rather long time to occur (~5 seconds on average). If I use the actual IP address things work beautifully smooth. It's actually not just surfing the web, I get the same problem when ssh-ing to a remote host. I don't think that my LAN is the problem as I have two Windows boxes on it and they do not show signs of this problem. If it makes any difference, it is a fresh install of Slackware 10.1 w/ full packages and run using KDE. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

is the box set as dhcp or static

Oh, totally forgot about that. The box is set up as DHCP (it is running through a Linksys router) .

post the output of ifconfig

/sbin/ifconfig :

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:05:C6:9B
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5016020 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3856995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1686137608 (1608.0 Mb) TX bytes:763081732 (727.7 Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:38576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:38576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4464389 (4.2 Mb) TX bytes:4464389 (4.2 Mb)

ok per this link:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...85#post1567685

i would suggest their solution to slow dns.
which is disable IPV6
you do this by typing:

echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf

and to answer the question what is IPV6:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...&q=define:IPv6

translated into english:
IPV6 will be implemented in the future when we run out of address' in the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx scheme.