From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 16:42:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E245837B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:42:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1233843E4A for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:42:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from rogers.com ([24.101.253.54]) by fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.05.06 201-253-122-126-106-20020509) with ESMTP id <20021231004211.SUXS148587.fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@rogers.com>; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:42:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3E10E805.6010409@rogers.com> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:42:45 -0500 From: Mike Jeays User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dean Scott Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Browser delays References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.101.253.54] using ID at Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:42:11 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dean Scott wrote: >Mike, > >I don't believe this is a bug at all. I have experienced the same delays on >selected sites. When I monitor the DNS request with Ethereal I find that >the delay is caused by a series of DNS requests using an ipv6 format. Some >sites don't handle these requests correctly. After a timeout on the series >of requests a request is submitted in ipv4 format and the connection is >made. The only thing to do is force FreeBSD to use only ipv4 addresses. > >Dean Scott >Network Engineer >Familymeds, Inc. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Jeays [mailto:mj001@rogers.com] >Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 9:48 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Browser delays > > > I am using Mozilla 1.0 with FreeBSD 4.7. The machine is attached to >a cable-TV high-speed service via an SMC Barricade router. I get >IP addresses assigned by DHCP running on the router. > >I have tried without the router (connecting directly to the >cable modem), and get the same results. > >When browsing certain web sites, including www.cnn.com, there >is about a 90 second delay when I load the first page; subsequent >pages are quite fast. I don't get the same problem with Windows >2000. > >Any suggestions, please? Do I need to enable a DNS caching server? > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > Thanks to all who offered suggestions. I can confirm that Dean and Robin are right. I rebuilt a kernel with INET6 disabled, and the problem has entirely gone away. Great! (All that work just to see CNN's page a few seconds earlier...) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message