Slow IE7 localhost DNS resolution

[augiem]

I've been having "stalling" problems for a LOOONNNG time on IE7 the first time I load certain websites per IE session (Yahoo, Pricegrabber). I'm also getting this annoying delay on localhost. I've been doing some web developing lately and I am going crazy from this 5-10 second stall.

It has to be a DNS lookup problem. It doesn't happen in Firefox, Opera, Safari, or IE 5.5. And it doesn't even stall if I just put 127.0.0.1 in the browser bar instead of localhost.

I'm not sure how to debug a problem like this. My hosts file is just the default 127.0.0.1 localhost. I saw some info about using winipcfg /all to get a list of all TCP/IP devices and get the following. (192.168.0.1 is my router). Strangely, it doesn't list my Firewire network which is on 10.1.
(I xx'd out the physical addresses out of paranoia. )

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : e6600

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No



Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet8:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet8

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.44.1

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :



Ethernet adapter VMware Network Adapter VMnet1:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter for VMnet1

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.163.1

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

 

[AnnonUSA]

IE 7 is the Vista of Internet Explorer. I have seen this and many other issues with IE7.

 

[xtknight]

Have you tried disabling IPv6 if you use IPv4? Or perhaps IE7 has a longer timeout.

 

[augiem]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Have you tried disabling IPv6 if you use IPv4? Or perhaps IE7 has a longer timeout.

I'm using XP and I don't have IPv6 installed. I'll check out the timeout idea.