On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 23:06 -0700, JD wrote:
I use the gnome terminal to nslookup
whatever-domain-it-was.com
and it resolves it in less than a second. I look at firefox, and it is
still trying to resolve!! Firefox seems to use some other way to
resolve the url's domain - the painfully slow way!!
Two things spring to mind:
Does the browser go through a proxy? If so, that proxy will do the
resolving.
Are you using the Firefox features to check for bad websites?
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