Faultfinding and the conclusions we jump to

[Collins Richey]

On 6/4/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> On 06/04/2006 07:46 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On 6/4/06, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
> >> OK so here I am re-installing my box with Ubuntu Dapper and I'm noticing
> >> that web browsing performance is incredibly slow. So I immediately blame
> >> Ubuntu ...
> >
> >>
> >> So in the end my assumption is incorrect my new Ubuntu box is fine. It's
> >> the ISP DNS1 that is porked.
> >>
> >> So after a judicious editing of the /etc/resolv.conf I'm fine
> >>
> >
> > As an aside, I noticed early on with Ubuntu that obtaining a lease
> > from my simple router takes longer that with any other distro, but I
> > never dug into it. On boot up, up to half of the total boot up time
> > was waiting for a lease. I don't think it's quite that slow now, so
> > maybe they fixed something along the way.
>
> Perhaps a bug in the version of the dhcp client that they are shipping,
> or maybe a bug in the NIC driver for the kernel?  What other distros did
> you test with?
>

I'm sure you're right; I've just been too lazy to check it out.

In recent years, only CentOS and FC3, and I don't believe I noticed
that behavior with these distros.


-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.