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XP gets on line in <2secs.Ubuntu in 58 secs.

Asked by john kirkus

Greetings from Finland. .........I have 2 hard drives, one with XP one with Dapper. Box is LAN connected to A-Link RoadRunner 24AP adsl modem. Drives are250GB, processor Intel core duo 1.86GHz. Firefox is Browser on both. XP connects promptly. Dapper takes almost a minute.DHCP seems to have worked. Same problem with Outlook Express versus Thunderbird. Same delay with either Dapper or Edgy on live disc. Very much the same problems with old laptop and Ubuntu as live disc. ISP, who supplied modem say no help support for Linux systems (and this is in Finland!!) Am extreme beginner.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

How are you measuring the time on each machine? From the time you open the browser on each until the home page appears? Or something else?

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#2

Alan
Many thanks for your reply.
Opening Firefox : 4sec XP 3sec Ubuntu
Click Google for search: XP<1sec Ubuntu >50sec
john

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#3

I wonder if it's a DNS issue. Can you copy/paste some info in here?

On windows can you do this:-

Start --> Run --> CMD --> OK
ipconfig /all

..and on Ubuntu:-

ALT+F2
ifconfig > ~/info.txt && route >> ~/info.txt && cat /etc/resolv.conf >> ~/info.txt
ALT+F2
gedit ~/info.txt

And paste it in here.

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#4

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Pope" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:24 PM
Subject: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]: Re: XP gets on line
in<2secs.Ubuntu in 58 secs.

Your support request #2870 on Ubuntu changed:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2870

    Status: Open => Needs information

Alan Pope requested for more information:
I wonder if it's a DNS issue. Can you copy/paste some info in here?

On windows can you do this:-

Start --> Run --> CMD --> OK
ipconfig /all

..and on Ubuntu:-

ALT+F2
ifconfig > ~/info.txt && route >> ~/info.txt && cat /etc/resolv.conf >>
~/info.txt
ALT+F2
gedit ~/info.txt

And paste it in here.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:F3:78:22:05
          inet addr:10.0.0.5 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::218:f3ff:fe78:2205/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:2184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1189 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2908193 (2.7 MiB) TX bytes:81323 (79.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:177 Base address:0xc800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:256 (256.0 b) TX bytes:256 (256.0 b)

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
10.0.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default router.home.net 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#5

Alan
More info - sorry the last was so abrupt and XP info missing, it got posted
sooner than intended. I can send a jpeg file of the XP screen - I don't know
how to save the DOS screen to a file.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Pope" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:24 PM
Subject: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]: Re: XP gets on line
in<2secs.Ubuntu in 58 secs.

Your support request #2870 on Ubuntu changed:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2870

    Status: Open => Needs information

Alan Pope requested for more information:
I wonder if it's a DNS issue. Can you copy/paste some info in here?

On windows can you do this:-

Start --> Run --> CMD --> OK
ipconfig /all

..and on Ubuntu:-

ALT+F2
ifconfig > ~/info.txt && route >> ~/info.txt && cat /etc/resolv.conf >>
~/info.txt
ALT+F2
gedit ~/info.txt

And paste it in here.

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Vadym Abramchuck (abramzzz) said : 		#6

Right-click the XP cmd.exe window and click select, drag the are you want to copy and press enter. Paste it anywhere you want.

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#7

Vadim - very many thanks for that - so here is the XP ip information:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>ipconfig/all

Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : 5onrmixsv7y61no
        Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E
Gigabit E
thernet NIC
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-18-F3-78-22-05
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.5
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2
        NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 27 December 2006 06:55:42
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 27 December 2006 07:55:42

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vadim Abramchuck" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 1:59 AM
Subject: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]: Re:
XPgets on line in<2secs.Ubuntu in 58 secs.

Your support request #2870 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2870

    Status: Open => Answered

Vadim Abramchuck proposed the following answer:
Right-click the XP cmd.exe window and click select, drag the area you
want to copy and press enter. Paste it anywhere you want.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#8

I don't see the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf under Linux there.

Can you:-

gedit /etc/resolv.conf

And then paste what you see here?

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#9

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Pope" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:26 AM
Subject: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]:
Re:[Support #2870]: Re: XPgets on line in<2secs.Ubuntu in 58 secs.

Your support request #2870 on Ubuntu changed:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2870

    Status: Open => Needs information

Alan Pope requested for more information:
I don't see the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf under Linux there.

Can you:-

gedit /etc/resolv.conf

And then paste what you see here?

nameserver 10.0.0.2

Many thanks - seems pretty cryptic, hope it helps

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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#10

Ok, that looks good. What that means is that the configuration under Ubuntu and Windows is effectively the same. However I have seen some routers not play nicely with respect to DNS (resolving hostnames like www.google.com to IP addresses like 1.2.3.4). As such it might be better to point your Ubuntu machine at your ISPs nameservers rather than have your router do the DNS lookups (which it will actually just farm out to your ISPs nameservers ultimately anyway).

To do this you need to know the IP addresses of your ISPs nameservers. There are at least 3 ways to find this out:-

1. Phone and ask them
2. Look at the documentation on their site
3. Logon to your routers admin page by pointing a web browser at http://10.0.0.2 and look for "name server" or "dns server" settings.

Note the IP addresses and then issue this command:-

ALT+F2, gksudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

Then in the text editor replace 10.0.0.2 with the first IP address and duplicate the line for any additional nameservers you discover your ISP has. They are likely to have at least two, maybe more.

So the file might loook like this:-

nameserver 1.2.3.4
nameserver 5.6.7.8

and so on..

Save it, then we need to render it read-only so that it doesn't get overwritten by DHCP.

Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal
sudo chmod 444 /etc/resolv.conf

Does this make things zippier?

It is also possible that you can set the DNS servers in System --> Administration --> Network --> DNS, but that's up to you. You still need to make resolv.conf read-only (as far as I know). If someone else knows a better way to do this I am sure they will speak up :)

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#11

Total Genius
Works Wonderfully
Very very many thanks
Happy New Year
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Pope" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:05 PM
Subject: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]: Re: [Support #2870]:
Re:[Support #2870]: Re:[Support #2870]: Re: XPgets on linein<2secs.Ubuntu in
58 secs.

Your support request #2870 on Ubuntu changed:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2870

    Status: Open => Answered

Alan Pope proposed the following answer:
Ok, that looks good. What that means is that the configuration under
Ubuntu and Windows is effectively the same. However I have seen some
routers not play nicely with respect to DNS (resolving hostnames like
www.google.com to IP addresses like 1.2.3.4). As such it might be better
to point your Ubuntu machine at your ISPs nameservers rather than have
your router do the DNS lookups (which it will actually just farm out to
your ISPs nameservers ultimately anyway).

To do this you need to know the IP addresses of your ISPs nameservers.
There are at least 3 ways to find this out:-

1. Phone and ask them
2. Look at the documentation on their site
3. Logon to your routers admin page by pointing a web browser at
http://10.0.0.2 and look for "name server" or "dns server" settings.

Note the IP addresses and then issue this command:-

ALT+F2, gksudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf

Then in the text editor replace 10.0.0.2 with the first IP address and
duplicate the line for any additional nameservers you discover your ISP
has. They are likely to have at least two, maybe more.

So the file might loook like this:-

nameserver 1.2.3.4
nameserver 5.6.7.8

and so on..

Save it, then we need to render it read-only so that it doesn't get
overwritten by DHCP.

Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal
sudo chmod 444 /etc/resolv.conf

Does this make things zippier?

It is also possible that you can set the DNS servers in System -->
Administration --> Network --> DNS, but that's up to you. You still
need to make resolv.conf read-only (as far as I know). If someone else
knows a better way to do this I am sure they will speak up :)

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https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2870/+confirm?answer_id=9

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john kirkus (john-kirkus) said : 		#12

A thousand thanks, works beautifully, Happy New Year