[kwlug-disc] Slow DNS in Firefox

[Chris Frey]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:30:38AM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Not identical but ....
> 
> I saw something similar to this a while back, and thought it was Rogers
> DNS servers that are slow.
> 
> While trying to trouble shoot it, I switched to Google's public DNS servers
> (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) and the issue went away.

I didn't get around to trying Google, but I found a solution:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/tw001_tw-27416/slow-dns-resolution-in-mozilla-and-firefox-129/

Basically, open a tab to about:config, search for network.dns.disableIPv6,
and set it to true.

Blisteringly fast DNS lookups. :-)

- Chris