Slow Surfing all of Sudden !?

[matti k]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:29:50 -0000
"Graham Bentley" <admin at cpcnw.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I just recently loaded FreeBSD 6.2 (RC1?) compiled a new kernel
> configured X installed Opera ....
> 
> Web browsing was really snappy !
> 
> I have added some more programs including Gaim and generally
> tinkered around and today I notice that browser sessions are much
> slower.
> 
> Looking at my router lights there seems to be a delay after pressing
> enter (after typing the URL) then ... some seconds later the page
> comes streaming in. Its odd because I noticed this exact behaviour
> some months ago when I tried out PCBSD.
> 
> Everything starts of nice and quick as far as browsing the web
> is concerned then after some time / event ? this delay gets
> introduced ?
> 
> How would I go about trying to figure out what is causing this
> effect ?

If it's a DNS issue, try looking at /etc/resolv.conf