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Re: [WWWOFFLE-Win32] wwwoffle through network is so sloowwww

JPT
Sat, 18 Aug 2001 23:37:36 -0700

"Andrew M. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "JPT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On my Win2k I run wwwoffle Version 2.6a.
> >
> > There is no problem, when surfing from localhost. But if I try to access
> > Internet from another computer in the local net, it is SLOW. Much slower
> > then a modem connection. Even access to the buffered files is slow.
Often it
> > does not work at all.
>
> This could be a problem with name lookups.  When you connect to the
> WWWOFFLE server it will do a name lookup so that it can find out who
> is connecting to it.

To authorize the client? Is there a way to disable this?
In "AllowedConnectHosts" I just added the line "192.168.0.*". So it should
not need to do name lookups?

> If the name lookup does not work then there it will timeout after a
> while and give up.

For the local net (at the time 2 computers) I do not have a DNS. For
Internet Winroute caches and forwards DNS. (when disconnecting it clears the
whole cache).

Internet through Winroute works, so DNS should work, too.

> I don't know how DNS name lookups are handled on
> Win2k.
I think windows calls out to the network and asks "who is out there?"
(sometimes, especialy after boot, this is VERY slow)

> One thing that you can look at the WWWOFFLE log file and see
> if there are any error messages.

looks like this:
wwwoffled[804](Information): HTTP Proxy connection from host localhost
(127.0.0.1).
wwwoffled[804](Information): Forked wwwoffles -spool (pid=388).
wwwoffles[388](Information):
URL='http://localhost:8080/index/http/www.applefritter.com/?sort=mtime'.
wwwoffled[804](Information): Child wwwoffles exited with status 0 (pid=388).
wwwoffled[804](Information): HTTP Proxy connection from host RET
(192.168.0.12).
wwwoffled[804](Information): Forked wwwoffles -spool (pid=1148).

I do not know, if it work this (^^^) time, or not... should I inspect it
further?


regards

Jan