On November 11, 2005 10:15, Ricardo Rodriguez Peralta wrote: > On 11/11/05, Ron Hunter-Duvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I apologize for my mistake, but greatly appreciate your comments (Feedback > and exchanging opinions and point of views is a good way to learn). > > My problem mentioned previously had nothing to do with privoxy but with > some missconfiguration between my home network and my office network. > > Once again, sorry for pointing privoxy but thank you for the time you spent > to share your experiences.
Nothing to apologize for. It's a never ending learning process with Linux. This is my first experience with privoxy too. There seems to be a recurring issue with network misconfigurations causing extreme slowdowns. It would be nice if instead of repeatedly and silently waiting for timeouts, you would get a popup saying "dsn server not responding" or something like that. Plus the timeout seems to take 5 minutes. Something like 30 seconds would be more reasonable. I ran into this while setting up my ipcop firewall with a lan router. I can't remember the details, but I know at one point my dns entries were wrong, and the whole machine became excruciatingly slow. I suspect part of the problem is that so many local things in linux are routed through the network interface (using the loopback interface) for flexibility (makes local and remote operation identical from the program's point of view). It seems that even these local requests get hit by dns problems. Maybe we need a "Mandriva running very slowly" troubleshooting guide. Anyway, glad to see you have things working now. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine.
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