[GRLUG] slow web surfing

[Tim Schmidt]

Firefox on Linux defaults to IPv6 DNS lookups.  It won't do an IPv4
lookup until after the IPv6 lookup has timed out.  Chances are very
good your wireless router is running a caching DNS server (like an
older version of dnsmasq) which doesn't support IPv6 lookups.  So you
can fix this by replacing your wireless router (or at least it's
firmware), or telling Firefox to skip the IPv6 lookups.  To do that,
type about:config into the URL bar, search for network.dns.disableIPv6
and set it to 'true'.  Firefox on Windows defaults to IPv4 lookups,
likely for exactly this reason.

--tim