Shami's Blog » HOWTO http://blog.al-shami.net A Mushroom A Day Keeps The Koopas Away Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:39:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Slow Browsing Under Ubuntu http://blog.al-shami.net/2008/08/slow-browsing-under-ubuntu/ http://blog.al-shami.net/2008/08/slow-browsing-under-ubuntu/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:35:23 +0000 Mohammad Al-Shami http://blog.al-shami.net/?p=50 EDIT: This post only covers IPv6, please check the update post which covers IPv6 and Firefox

Today when I rebooted to my Windows installation which I very rarely do, I noticed that browsing under Windows feels much faster than under Ubuntu. After booting back to Ubuntu I noticed the “looking up domain.tld” part was taking a lot of time, which seemed a little odd.

Anyways, after some googling I found out that Debian enables IPv6 by default and uses that before and uses it before IPv4. A quick remedy was:

sudo vi /etc/modprobe.d/bad_list

#Add this line
alias net-pf-10 off

After which you should reboot your system. Now browsing feels much faster. To speed it up a little I installed a local caching DNS server which works like a charm. A quick HOWTO can be found here

Hope this helps.

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