Please Help! DSL Problems

Hello all,

I decided to do the unthinkable and remove every trace of Windows from
my home. I loaded CentOS on my home PC and waited for the fireworks.
What I got was hours of aggravation. I use Verizon Online for my DSL
service. CentOS detects the Westell 2200 Router and connects to the
internet but at a slower than dial up speed. I'm not sure if this is a
DNS problem. Has anyone got Verizon Online to work with their Linux
distribution?

Thanks,

Shannon Sumner

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:35:18 -0700, Shannon Sumner wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I decided to do the unthinkable and remove every trace of Windows from
> my home. I loaded CentOS on my home PC and waited for the fireworks.
> What I got was hours of aggravation. I use Verizon Online for my DSL
> service. CentOS detects the Westell 2200 Router and connects to the
> internet but at a slower than dial up speed. I'm not sure if this is a
> DNS problem. Has anyone got Verizon Online to work with their Linux
> distribution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shannon Sumner

You did not do a very good job of describing the particular problem, but
if you search through this newsgroup you'll find references to the
following name resolution problems. I started with resolution taking about
45 seconds on an install I did at the local public library (MDK 10.1).

1) turn off IPV6 - this reduced the reolution time from about 45 seconds
to 12 seconds. If you're not using IPV6, this seems to get in the way.

2) get 'options timeout:1' into your /etc/resolv.conf file. This reduced
the time from about 12 seconds to 1 second. The problem here is that some
DNS servers seem to 'miss' the first couple of requests from Linux
computers, causing a timeout or two - the default timeout is five seconds.

We're now happily browsing with one or two second resolution times.

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:19:45 -0600, ray wrote:

> 2) get 'options timeout:1' into your /etc/resolv.conf file.

Thanks for that option. I wasn't having any problems before, but now my
browser connects instantly!
You've transformed my web experience completely.

--
Jafar Calley
Producer - http://moonlife-records.com
--------------------------------------
See the latest Mars and Saturn images
http://fatcat.homelinux.org

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 23:08:55 +0200, jafar wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:19:45 -0600, ray wrote:
>
>> 2) get 'options timeout:1' into your /etc/resolv.conf file.
>
> Thanks for that option. I wasn't having any problems before, but now my
> browser connects instantly!
> You've transformed my web experience completely.

Glad to help - this seems to be a growing problem, but so far as I know,
no one has really isolated the exact nature of the problem and it's cure -
we're just attacking the symptom.