{"id":99,"date":"2007-09-22T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2007-09-22T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T12:01:00","slug":"browser-looking-up-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Browser &quot;Looking Up&quot; Slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My desktop, Hoover, was really sluggish.  I use Pinto, the laptop more often when reading my mail, so it&#8217;s not clear when this started.  I first suspected Comcast until my wife confirmed only Hoover did this.  I checked DNS settings and both computers were using the same DNS servers.  Some Googling picked up <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+question\/2509\">Slow internet (download OK but &#8220;looking up&#8221; is slow)<\/a> which pointed to <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4\">WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4<\/a> that had instructions for disabling IPv6.  It seems some NICs are broken with respect to IPv6.  FWIW, mine&#8217;s a Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX, which, IIRC, came with my Comcast installation.<\/p>\n<p>Except for the editor they use, it works in Fedora, too:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>edit <code>\/etc\/modprobe.d\/blacklist<\/code><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Add this line:  <code>blacklist ipv6<\/code><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Reboot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My desktop, Hoover, was really sluggish. I use Pinto, the laptop more often when reading my mail, so it&#8217;s not clear when this started. I first suspected Comcast until my wife confirmed only Hoover did this. I checked DNS settings and both computers were using the same DNS servers. Some Googling picked up Slow internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}