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NorrinRadd
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Posted: Sat Nov 15th, 2008 08:22 am |
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For the past several days, my Internet activity has been significantly slowed in both my browser (Firefox) and e-mail client (T'bird) while their respective status bars display something along the lines of, "looking up..."
Is that a sign of a DNS problem somewhere in the pipeline?
It seemed to start *roughly* around the time I allowed MS Updates to install XP SP3. Coinkydink?
Last edited on Sat Nov 15th, 2008 08:24 am by NorrinRadd
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Posted: Mon Nov 17th, 2008 11:03 am |
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NorrinRadd wrote: For the past several days, my Internet activity has been significantly slowed in both my browser (Firefox) and e-mail client (T'bird) while their respective status bars display something along the lines of, "looking up..."
Is that a sign of a DNS problem somewhere in the pipeline?
It seemed to start *roughly* around the time I allowed MS Updates to install XP SP3. Coinkydink?
I haven't noticed that one, per se, but it wouldn't surprise me.
Ever since I let Microsoft automatically update Office 2007 for me, Word 2007 crashes every time I shut it down. I don't lose data or documents, but it's annoying for "Windows to be looking for a friggin' solution" every single time I close the program down! *grrrrr*
Checking online, of course, I find that it's a "known issue". 
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Posted: Thu Nov 20th, 2008 06:44 am |
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NorrinRadd wrote: For the past several days, my Internet activity has been significantly slowed in both my browser (Firefox) and e-mail client (T'bird) while their respective status bars display something along the lines of, "looking up..."
Is that a sign of a DNS problem somewhere in the pipeline?
It seemed to start *roughly* around the time I allowed MS Updates to install XP SP3. Coinkydink?
Why would you think that this is a DNS problem? It could be as simple as rebooting your modem.
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Posted: Thu Nov 20th, 2008 03:41 pm |
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J. Sloan wrote: NorrinRadd wrote: For the past several days, my Internet activity has been significantly slowed in both my browser (Firefox) and e-mail client (T'bird) while their respective status bars display something along the lines of, "looking up..."
Is that a sign of a DNS problem somewhere in the pipeline?
It seemed to start *roughly* around the time I allowed MS Updates to install XP SP3. Coinkydink?
Why would you think that this is a DNS problem? It could be as simple as rebooting your modem.
Because it persisted for at least a week, regardless of restarts of browser and e-mail client and reboots of system. However, it seems to have cleared up and has been working better the past 2-3 days.
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