Topic: Server really slowing internet access

[dave simmons]

We've experienced problems recently with internet access (from inside our network) being really slow.  Our SME server (SME8 all updates applied) on a Poweredge R200 with 8GB RAM is in server/gateway mode.

Yesterday, after having tried pretty much everything else (including swapping out switches and wireless access point), I tried disabling the DHCP on the SME and using a pfsense firewall running on Soekris hardware as our internet gateway.  Speed is back to normal. 

Our website and mail - running on the Dell - are fine, and access speed from the outside is fine.  The server starts/restarts normally, without throwing up any errors. 

Anyone have any suggestions why this could be?  (If you need to see log files, tell me what to post)

Thanks.

[guest22]

Hi Dave,

could you please log your issue in bugzilla?

Thanks.

[Stefano]

how many clients?
squid running on SME? any web filtering (squidguard/dansguardian)?

sometimes I had some issues with DNS.. solved setting up an external DNS server (forwarder)
my guess is that ISP (in my case) is limiting dns traffic toward root servers; using its dns server solved the issue

to understand where's your issue, you should use iptraf.. naturally, SME has to act as dhcp/dns server

[CharlieBrady]

could you please log your issue in bugzilla?

Isn't it too late? The problem no longer exists, so how is Dave to investigate it?