"Looking Up/Contacting" Slow when switching between webpages.

[Mark_Mac]

To clear the cache on your Mac running Leopard launch Terminal (in your utilities folder) type
dscacheutil -flushcache and hit return.

Mark, it might also be worth you entering the OpenDNS servers into your network settings on the computer.

Thank you!!  It worked, me thinking straight away that clearing the cache would require the sudo command.  Guess I should have tried from the very beginning.

I switched off the OpenDNS to check everything is back to normal as auto and it is.    

So there we have it, the problem for me was DNS cache on my own Mac.  Funny though yesterday I updated my Leopard to 10.5.3 but this can't have been the cause since the problem started BEFORE the update (i.e. whilst it was 10.5.2).

But anyway, I'm glad to have internet all back to normal.

Many thanks to all.

Net91 - did this solve it for you as well?

PS - thanks for the welcome, it's good to be here.  Really impressed with the community support that exists for IDNet.

Mark

[Lance]

Welcome to the forum, Mark!

[net91]

...no response from Digital Spy...

I have also been unable to access the Digital Spy website. A message from OpenDNS said 'the computers that are ruining the website seem to be having trouble', so I am guessing it is a fault at their end.

[Mark_Mac]

I have also been unable to access the Digital Spy website. A message from OpenDNS said 'the computers that are ruining the website seem to be having trouble', so I am guessing it is a fault at their end.

Had same message here, but when I did the Terminal thing everything was back to normal.

Have you tried that yet?

I'm off to sleep now, won't be back online until tomz evening.

[net91]

I will try that, thanks.

[Sebby]

I have also been unable to access the Digital Spy website. A message from OpenDNS said 'the computers that are ruining the website seem to be having trouble', so I am guessing it is a fault at their end.

That's really strange as I can access it on OpenDNS!

[Inactive]

Welcome Mark, have a welcome Karma...

I don't have a problem with Digital Spy, it opens immediately, however I have read of other people having problems recently on other forums, so it probably/ possibly isn't down to IDNet.

[Rik]

Yep I am using OpenDNS (although I'm not sure which way the values go in - Primary and Secondary). However I have tried both ways and the result is the same, no response from Digital Spy, slowness on some sites, absolutely fine on other sites.

Welcome to the forum.

Have you tried the IDNet servers, Mark?

[Sebby]

Welcome to the forum, Mark!

[Mark_Mac]

Welcome to the forum.

Have you tried the IDNet servers, Mark?

Hi Rik

I think I was using the IDNet servers since my DNS settings were automatic (meaning IDNet's DNS?).

But since I saw your recommendation of OpenDNS, I looked at their site and it looks really good.  Especially that I can block types of sites for free.  That will be very handy in my house.

Mark

[Rik]

OpenDNS is a useful service, Mark, though I find it slightly slower than IDNet's servers most of the time. OTOH, if you set up DNS at computer level, you can chop and change at any time without disturbing your connection.

[Mark_Mac]

OpenDNS is a useful service, Mark, though I find it slightly slower than IDNet's servers most of the time. OTOH, if you set up DNS at computer level, you can chop and change at any time without disturbing your connection.

Cheers for that.

I was doing it all on my ADSL router but your suggestion sounds better.  So I'm doing it on the computers instead.

Of course once the kids realise this (not for quite a while yet thou) I will have to go back to doing on the router where the settings are secured.

[Rik]

Mmm. Administrator and User accounts?

[Mark_Mac]

Mmm. Administrator and User accounts?

They are always installing games (they swap games with their friends).  It ended up being easier to just have their account as admin.

Bad practise I know, but they hate having to wait ages for me to come home and install it.

[Rik]

Well, hopefully, they won't learn too much about DNS too quickly.

[ChrisB]

Hi All,

I've been experiencing similar problems for about the last week, my symptoms include:

1. Various sites loading very slowly i.e. minutes to load a page.
2. Some pages loading 95%, then taking a minute or so to finally load the page, most notable on things such as avatars on forum postings
3. Waiting for http://......etc

Hitting refresh seems to cure the problem most of the time.

Changing to the open DNS servers does not seem to have made any difference. Removing AVG and Windows Defender has made no difference.

Results at Speedtest.net are consistently 6+ mbps, so I don't think it's a line quality issue.

Any suggestions to help with diagnosis would be appreciated. Could this be an IDnet issue?

Thanks,

Chris

[Lance]

  Chris 

To be honest, I'm not sure what to suggest. I do think, though, it is unlikely to be a IDNet issue. One thing you could try is flushing your DNS cache (open a command prompt and type 'ipconfig /flushdns'). I'm sure other people will be along in the morning with more suggestions

[Simon]

Hi Chris, and   

I have nothing to add to what Lance said. 

[Sebby]

I'm noticing some of this unresponsiveness still (I posted a while back), but I'm putting it down to exchange work as not everyone seems to be affected.

[net91]

After a few days of using the reversed DNS addresses given by IDNET I have not noticed any pages being as slow as when I first encountered this issue, although some seem a little slow. In comparison I have found when I set my machine to use Open DNS pages load slightly faster.

Have IDNET said anything else on this issue now?

[Rik]

Not to me.

[ChrisB]

Morning All & thanks for the welcome to the forums.

Flushing the DNS has not helped - time for a Sunday of experimenting and diagnosis, I think I'll try reversing the IDnet DNS servers.

Whilst typing this, I've had a Multimap page trying to load for about 3 minutes -  clicking on refresh clears the problem - very odd.

Now my printer has just jammed up - the technology is ganging up on me this morning!

Chris
In need of karma!

[Rik]

Hi Chris

What router are you using, have you tried re-booting it (mains off, pause, back on)?

[ChrisB]

Morning Rik,

The router is a 3Com 3CRWD100A - 72. so far it's been 10o% reliable, it gets rebooted every morning.  One of the things on my list is to try today, is reverting to a previous version of firmware in the router. I didn't immediately notice the problem after upgrading the firmware - but it's worth a try.

Chris

[Rik]

Hi Chris

Reverting the firmware is always worth a try, I've not met one yet that didn't introduce a new bug.

Failing that, some prolonged pinging might be called for.