NetSurf sluggish on ARMX6
John Rickman (71) 645 posts |
I have NetSurf running on three machines. A Pi4 a Pi3 and an ARMX6. On the two Pis the window opens and the contents appear instantly. |
John Rickman (71) 645 posts |
On the ARMX6 the window opens and there is a delay of 15 seconds The delay seems to be caused by NetSurf timing out because it is using an out of date primary name server.
192.168.1.55 was the ip address of adblocker PiHole but this is not running at the moment. I have removed the address from my router, have deleted NetSurf from !Scrap, and Choices and installed a new version. There is no sign of ..1.55 in Configuration Network. Somehow NetSurf is hanging on to …1.55 as primary DNS. Where might the reference be hiding? |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
If it’s Inet$Resolvers, wouldn’t your Network settings be the place to look? |
John Rickman (71) 645 posts |
If it’s Inet$Resolvers, wouldn’t your Network settings be the place to look? Yes absolutely, but I have examined every option in NetWork Settings. There is no sign of 192.168.1.55 anywhere. It was hard coded in the Hosts window but I erased it a week ago. Nonetheless NetSurf is still using it. I am supposing that the Internet stack has some sort of persistent cache which NetSurf is picking up. |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
I’m not at the Pi, sitting out in the sun with a tea (again!). Edited… It bugged me. I’m looking at my machine. Hard to see the screen with sunglasses. ;) Okay, look at the files in $.!Boot.Choices.Internet, specifically Startup. |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
What’s your primary DNS now? And have you rebooted since changing these things?
As far as I’m aware, Netsurf doesn’t deal with any of that low level stuff, it just asks the Resolver to look up an address. If you go to the command line and enter |
John Rickman (71) 645 posts |
Thanks – I have found an obey file in PreDesk |
John Rickman (71) 645 posts |
If you go to the command line and enter ping heyrick.eu Instantaneous. |
John Rickman (71) 645 posts |
will keep looking! Case closed (red face emoji) |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
Ah, the joy of temporary “I’ll just put this here” stuff. I’m sure we’ve all been there, done that, and subsequently misplaced the t-shirt. ;) Glad you got it sorted. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
I get asked for temporary solutions at work.1 1 Someone in the dept. once introduced a set of mini-switches hanging off the low number of points back to proper switches “temporarily, until the new datapoints are installed” – 10 f’n years… |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
DHCP: DNS and gateway settings |