what should i have in resolv.conf & hosts

[Tim]

Ash wrote:

> Danny Browne wrote:
>
>> Browsers in fluxbox (and gnome when i treid that switching to that) 
>> take forever to fetch webpages (2 mins on a DSL line). but the speed 
>> is normal when using ping or ftp or whatever from terminal/console.
>> are my reslov.conf and hosts file entrys correct?
>>
>> resolv.conf just has:
>>
>> nameserver 192.168.1.254
>>
>> hosts has:
>>
>> ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain
>> 192.168.1.3 VaioBSD VaioBSD.eircom.net
>>
>
> [SNIP]
>
> Danny,
>
> I assume that by "browsers" you mean a Mozilla derived browser 
> compiled as a native FreeBSD binary (vs a Linux binary running under 
> emulation). There seems to be a known issue the way Mozilla resolves 
> under FreeBSD. There were some good threads in the news groups and 
> mailing lists on this; You should be able to find them via 
> groups.google.com by searching for something along the lines of 
> "mozilla DNS slow".
>
> There are few couple of reported ways to get around the resolvers 
> issue. I've read that disabling IPv6 in your kernel will help. 
> Installing the Linux native ports (e.g. www/linux-mozillafirebird or 
> www/linux-mozilla) is also reported to work. I haven't tried either of 
> the fore mentioned workarounds, so I don't know if they work or are 
> still applicable.
>
> I route my web traffic through the Squid proxy (available as a FreeBSD 
> port www/squid). As a result, I'm not affected by the resolvers issue 
> since Squid is handling DNS resolution for browsers on my network.
>
> I'm not saying my work around is the best fix; I just happened to need 
> a proxy on my network so it was a convenient fix way for me to deal 
> with this issue.
>
> -Ash
>
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I'm running 5.3 and have IPv6 in my kernel, and I resolv just fine, as 
long as my DNS server isn't inside my local network. In resolv.conf 
should be:

nameserver a.b.c.d

where a.b.c.d is the ip address for the DNS server provided by your ISP. 
If the IP address being provided by is a 192 address, you're bound to 
have problems. In other words, if your ISP has given you DNS servers to 
use, use them. If not, find one.