And why do you think it has anything to do with networking in Slackware or any other distribution?
Code:
root@liet:~# ping 8.8.8.8
ping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=31.1 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=57 time=39.8 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=57 time=27.8 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 27.782/32.904/39.824/5.077 ms
Yup, an average of 33ms, but if you dig a bit furhter:
Code:
root@liet:~# traceroute -n 8.8.8.8
traceroute to 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 0.369 ms 0.435 ms 0.333 ms
2 172.24.79.202 29.199 ms 49.278 ms 49.274 ms
3 172.24.67.225 44.443 ms 44.300 ms 44.344 ms
4 172.24.226.217 43.205 ms 43.242 ms 43.304 ms
5 172.24.226.218 44.275 ms 44.391 ms 44.321 ms
6 80.233.113.60 44.503 ms 44.184 ms 44.055 ms
7 80.233.113.61 44.759 ms 22.900 ms 32.801 ms
8 * * *
9 8.8.8.8 31.486 ms 31.504 ms 31.019 ms
root@liet:~#
The first hop, the home-router, outside already of the Linux box, has a response time of 0.333-0.435ms, it is beyond the router where the latency increases.
Maybe Google has changed the location of the DNS servers, or maybe your broadband provider is having some issues, it can be multiple different things, but so far it doesn't look as a problem with the Linux box.
