What happens if you telnet or ftp to the server? Does it take a few seconds
for the login prompt to come up?
brain
Bill Carlson wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Matthew Halliday wrote:
>
> > Hi Guys
> > I've had to swap our Intranet from a dedicated server (a PII 350 PC
> > running RedHat 6.1 and Apache on 128MB and 4GB HDD)to our new fileserver
> > (HP LH3 NetServer - 256 MB with 5x9GB RAID and PIII 500) also running
> > RedHat 6.1. We run Netscape clients on Win95 machines. The access is
> > normally almost instant - but with the new server it's very slow gaining
> > access to port 80. All permissions and ownerships are the same, config
> > files are the same and I can't see the problem. Once in, the intranet
> > runs VERY fast, but the initial link can take 30 - 60 seconds. Any
> > ideas anyone?
>
> Matt,
>
> Sounds like you have a DNS problem somewhere. Check the clients for their
> primary DNS server and make sure that is working.
>
> Could perhaps be reverse lookups on the clients are failing. Do you have
> HostNameLookups turned on in Apache?
>
> If it is not DNS, are the clients hitting some CGI the first time they
> access the site? Could be that is the problem, it is taking that long to
> do what it needs.
>
> HTH,
>
> Bill Carlson
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Matthew Halliday wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to those who responded to the previous question. To fill in the
> detail, we don't use DNS so if it's trying to resolve it then it could
> be the reason for the slow connection - how do I find out? - and
> HostnameLookups = off. Is there anything I'm missing?
>
> Matt
