Thanks for the replies. The problem seems to have "fixed itself" since a reboot. He is not sure why but it is working fine now.
I think he has done rather well in the space of just a few days he has a headless Gentoo server with Apache2, SSl ,Mysql ,PHP running and uses PuTTY from work to administer it. He also has Bittornado running and TorrentFlux to allow remote bittorrent admin. A bit more practice with screen and Gentoo/Portage administration and he will be ahead of me. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Steve Holdoway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 13 December 2004 1:49 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache speed On Mon, December 13, 2004 1:19 pm, Nick Rout said: > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 13:17:40 +1300 > "Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Question I have not set up the DNS yet would that cause apache to run >> slow? > > yes quite likely. if it is doing reverse dns lookups and they are > failing, this will cause long delays. > >> >> An anyone offer any suggestions? Apache only (usually) needs to resolve virtual domain names. If you add these into /etc/hosts, either as a temporary solution, or permanently if there aren't many of them, then this should speed things up. That's /etc/hosts on the web server and your local client machine(s), if they are different. As you can see, where the (s) gets larger, the more a local dns server makes sense! $0.02 Steve > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off
