Five minues or more to connect to e-mail provider through browser.

Hello,

Now here's a head scratcher...

I have two machines on my local network:

-- Debian Etch with Firefox browser
-- Windows XP with Firefox browser

When I ping my e-mail provider, I get acceptable response from either system (25 ms - 75ms).
But when I connect through the browser, only the Windows system gives me acceptable response.

The Debian system takes five minutes or more to connect to log-in; three minutes or more to bring up mail from log-in, whereas the Windows system gives me acceptable response.

But this laggardly response only happens when I try to connect to my e-mail provider. Any other URL or IP gives me acceptable response.

I've updated Debian Etch; and Firefox on both machines.

I've copied the latest from my mail provider's tech help below. As you can see, not much help. And, below that, I've copied config info.

Insights anyone? Would much appreciate your ideas.

All the best,

Lloyd

********* from tech help *********

I really don't have any advice I can give you, I'm sorry. If I was sitting in front of the
computer, perhaps something would pop out at me, but from what you've mailed us, everything looks
set up correct. I can't think of a reason, outside of specific routing rules, that would cause
problems contacting Mailtrust, but not all other providers, and especially since the windows
computer isn't having any issues.

As a diagnostic step, I could reccomend turning the firewall off (/etc/init.d/iptables stop),
turning off SELinux (http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html), and possibly a very
small handful of other things, but beyond that, I'm kind of stumped.

********* end tech help ***********

Note: firewall is off in Debian Etch; selinux is disable to the best of my knowledge.

********* Debian Etch config ***********

Cube1:/home/lloyd# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

Cube1:/home/lloyd# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search home
nameserver 192.168.1.1

Cube1:/home/lloyd# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:4C:DD:4C:96
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fedd:4c96/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:510070 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:361448 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:292541751 (278.9 MiB) TX bytes:306670392 (292.4 MiB)
Interrupt:193 Base address:0xc400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1063172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1063172 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:471743194 (449.8 MiB) TX bytes:471743194 (449.8 MiB)