I'm using Chrome, on my wife's laptop. Opening chrome takes only a second, as it should. But as soon as I click on any of the thumbnailed sites (reddit.com, as an example), I have to wait. There's nothing in the browser indicating that it's loading, other than www.reddit.com
appearing in the URL.
I got curious, and started running WireShark to see what might be causing the slowdown. That's when I noticed the following entries (after I clicked the link):
21 7.971612 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.1 DNS Standard query A pazkytgbcc.lan
22 7.972368 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.1 DNS Standard query A krxzlmahld.lan
23 7.973469 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.1 DNS Standard query A idbjtwdafg.lan
24 7.989505 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.126 DNS Standard query response, No such name
25 7.990754 fe80::401e:5f23:4885:605 ff02::1:3 LLMNR Standard query A pazkytgbcc
26 7.991031 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.126 DNS Standard query response, No such name
27 7.991580 192.168.1.126 224.0.0.252 LLMNR Standard query A pazkytgbcc
28 7.992852 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.126 DNS Standard query response, No such name
29 7.993054 fe80::401e:5f23:4885:605 ff02::1:3 LLMNR Standard query A krxzlmahld
then later
89 12.818203 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.255 NBNS Name query NB PAZKYTGBCC<00>
90 12.818324 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.255 NBNS Name query NB KRXZLMAHLD<00>
91 12.818401 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.255 NBNS Name query NB IDBJTWDAFG<00>
92 13.568167 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.255 NBNS Name query NB PAZKYTGBCC<00>
93 13.568337 192.168.1.126 192.168.1.255 NBNS Name query NB KRXZLMAHLD<00>
notice that these are repeating "hosts" from the A queries above. Any idea what's causing this? How do I fix it? This makes browsing terribly slow, and my wife is getting frustrated. I've tried adding these entries to the hosts
file (which, Vista makes incredibly difficult), but to no avail. The hosts seem to be different each time, and I see no standard pattern.
I've run Spybot against her machine, and she has AVG installed, and it comes back clean. Other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
pazkytgbcc.lan
. I know about the hosts file. My problem, is how to make it stop running these queries.