Andrew M. Bishop
Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:35:58 -0700
"JPT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "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? WWWOFFLE does do a name lookup after the IP address has been found. This is not normally a problem since UNIX systems tend to have DNS working for hosts that are local and likely to connect. > 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. There will not be entries for the two local machines in the DNS. > > 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) You should be able to create a hosts file that lists the hosts and IP addresses that are known to the system. On Win95 there was a file called c:\windows\hosts that was the same format as the UNIX hosts file. 192.168.0.1 thishost 192.168.0.2 thathost There are lots of Windows experts out there who could confirm (or not) the answer to this. > > 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). The last-but-one line shows that a name lookup on 192.168.0.12 was done and the answer 'RET' was received. I don't know if this is the name of your computer or not. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html