On 09/14/2013 05:34 PM, Tom Rosmond wrote:
> T.
>
> No luck.  Making your suggested changes didn't solve the problem.  I
> think it is because for some reason 'resolv.conf' didn't recreate, even
> after a reboot.  So without it there was no nameservice and nothing
> worked.

I forgot to tell yo to restart your netowrking daemon.   Sorry.

> I put the original back in place and that restored nameservice,
> but at the original slowdown.  I assume this is because of the DNS
> mismatch between 'ifcfg-eth0' and 'resolv.conf'?   I tried putting the
> Google DNS values in 'resolv.conf' and restarting 'eth0', and now the
> file was recreated, but with my own router and ISP nameservice
> addresses.  The 'dhclient' deamon seems to insist on that.
>
> This problem is not unique to me.  I see similar threads in various
> Linux forums (Ubuntu, Redhat, etc) complaining about slow nameservice
> compared to Windows.  And no clear resolution of the problem.

You have probably gone a far as you can go.