nonroot@susesrv:~> cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain site
nameserver 68.87.75.1
nameserver 68.87.64.146
nameserver 192.168.1.1
The domain site entry is default. This is not part of a domain or workgroup. (should this be changed anyway?)
The first two name servers is comcast dns servers.
The third name server is my router which gets it ip addresses and DNS via DHCP.
(This is a failover should comcast change their DNS addresses again without warning...)

The DNS servers are statically assigned and so is the network card.
Nothing *should* be assigned via DHCP.

I have disabled ipv6 via the

echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
echo "alias ipv6 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
AND Also
echo "alias net-pf-10 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf.local
echo "alias ipv6 off" >> /etc/modprobe.conf.local
I have disabled ipv6 in firefox.

network.dns.disableIPv6 user set boolean true
I've set firefox to directly connect to the internet instead of system setting.

I have also tweaked a couple of other "performance" features in firefox as recommended on various other forums. None of them seemed to help at all. They were all browser related and I beleive this to be a network issue rather than browser issue.

When I ping from CLI, it takes just as long.

If I put a static entry into my hosts file, it resolves right away.