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  1. Bug #155393
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 155393

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Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) wrote : Re: [Bug 155393] Re: Internet extremely slow in Gutsy after upgrade

Thanks for the Ouzo!

> Ohhh, I was wondering, is there any other way to install a fix other
> than update, because some people might not be able to fix such bugs as
> they don't have internet connection... because of the bug! For example,
> I had to wait for a period to get my internet connection working in
> order to update.

I suppose what I'd try is to make sure /etc/host.conf includes "order
hosts,bind" which means /etc/hosts is searched before resorting to DNS
and then temporarily append the required hostnames and their IP
addresses to /etc/hosts, e.g.

    194.169.254.10 gb.archive.ubuntu.com
    91.189.88.37 security.ubuntu.com

However, I'm not running Gutsy and don't suffer the problem so I've not
tried this. Shouldn't do any harm though, and the lines can just be
deleted afterwards so DNS is used for them again.