Topic: Slow http connections

[Joshua Lyndon]

Hi,

The (small) school I work for recently had e-smith installed onto a new server to function as a caching proxy and provide webmail services. We use squirrel for the mail. No authentication is necessary for the proxy, but clients must be configured to use the proxy.

Local lan, 192.168.x.x ranges.

Primary DNS is our Windows 2000 PDC.

The problem we have is that when accessing any site via http the initial connection takes quite a long tim - sometimes up to 30 seconds. Once in the site however loading is quite fast (ADSL connection) and so long as you stay within that domain, there are no unexpected delays. Pings go through straight away, telnet responds quickly, the DNS resolution is not a problem, and e-mails also seem to be fine. The slowdown is only evident in http connections.

I know jack-all about e-smith, as does my co-worker, and we have no idea what could be causing this. Any help would be appreciated.

Joshua

[Matt Quelch]

When you say that Ping and Telnet go through straight away, are you Pinging and Telneting external sites? The only thing I would guess at is that it is having to reconnect to your ADSL connection everytime..

Matt

[Steve]

verify that the e-smith server has DNS properly configured. check /etc/resolv.conf and /home/dns/etc/named.conf.

also ssh to the e-smtih server and try running 'nslookup example.com'