I apologize, but I could only find one other thread regarding this and it was dead with no useful information.
Okay, for the most part, it would seem that I'm having certain internet connection issues with my new Fedora Core 8 installation. It would seem that the primary issue is that the OS is having difficulties in looking up the appropriate DNS information in a timely manner.
When I try to lookup a website in Firefox, it'll spend 5-6 seconds on "Looking up hardforum.com" as an example. However, once the proper information is obtained, everything loads as it should in a fairly quick manner.
I've alread looked up all the necessary information on disabling IPV6 on Fedora Core, including editing the sysconfig and modprobe files, as well as ending and turning off the ip6tables service.
I've even disabled ipv6 in Firefox, and all of this to no avail.
Also, if it helps, the Yum update is extremely slow. I found that yum-updatesd was tying everything up, and that's because the downloads were going at roughly 4KB/sec. Yeah, try updating a fresh install with those speeds.
So, has anyone have any other possible suggestions on what might be causing all of this? I don't want to try another Linux Distribution for the fact that Fedora Core was the only one that worked out of Gentoo, SuSE and Ubuntu.
Thanks a lot for any helpful information.
Edit
Oh, and I'm running a 3Mb connection, so slow speeds isn't cause by that.
Okay, for the most part, it would seem that I'm having certain internet connection issues with my new Fedora Core 8 installation. It would seem that the primary issue is that the OS is having difficulties in looking up the appropriate DNS information in a timely manner.
When I try to lookup a website in Firefox, it'll spend 5-6 seconds on "Looking up hardforum.com" as an example. However, once the proper information is obtained, everything loads as it should in a fairly quick manner.
I've alread looked up all the necessary information on disabling IPV6 on Fedora Core, including editing the sysconfig and modprobe files, as well as ending and turning off the ip6tables service.
I've even disabled ipv6 in Firefox, and all of this to no avail.
Also, if it helps, the Yum update is extremely slow. I found that yum-updatesd was tying everything up, and that's because the downloads were going at roughly 4KB/sec. Yeah, try updating a fresh install with those speeds.
So, has anyone have any other possible suggestions on what might be causing all of this? I don't want to try another Linux Distribution for the fact that Fedora Core was the only one that worked out of Gentoo, SuSE and Ubuntu.
Thanks a lot for any helpful information.
Edit
Oh, and I'm running a 3Mb connection, so slow speeds isn't cause by that.