From: "Gary Britt" 

What entry did you put in the hosts file?

Gary

"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:44c4c984$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:13:08 -0400, George Sherwood wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:02:25 -0700, Randall Parker wrote:
>>> I click a message and it loads instantly. Then I click another message
>>> and it takes 30 seconds to load.
>>>
>>> I've got a WinXP Home connected to the same firewall and Thunderbird on
>>> it does not have this problem.
>>
>> I don't have a solution, but I have a similar problem with Linux here.
>> In
>> windows with the same DNS settings I don't see it, but from some other
>> issues I am seeing, I am pretty sure it is DNS.  Will have to put some
>> IP's in the hosts file to see if I can figure it out.  I do know that the
>> DNS servers for this DSL service in Azerbaijan, really suck.  I often
>> have
>> to reboot the modem just to get DNS back.
>
> Definitely DNS related since putting the IP in the hosts file made
> everything very snappy using pan in Linux.

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