Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:13:46PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > > > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [... snip resolution to dns delays...]

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-12-2009 21:13, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >>> On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> [... snip resoluti

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:14:18 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [... snip resolution to dns delays...] > > >> > > >> How did you go a

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >> On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [... snip resolution to dns delays...] How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns server

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:40:53PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [... snip resolution to dns delays...] > >> > >> How did you go about checking this? I use OpenDNS as dns servers and no > >> other firewall than what comes with Debian by default. > > >

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-12-2009 19:33, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:41:35AM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >> On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, De

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 10:41:35AM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [..] > >>> > >>> This sounds like an ipv4/ipv

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-07 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-12-2009 1:15, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>>

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 04:08:11PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a > > > ? request (

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:56:06AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a > > ? request (whatever that means) while the squeeze machine is > > making both a A? and ?

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,06.Dec.09, 15:39:59, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > there are clearly some differences. the lenny machine is making a > ? request (whatever that means) while the squeeze machine is > making both a A? and ? requests. And the responses are different. > This behavior is consistent

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:37:23PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > I tried the same test with wget'ing Google, these are the results: > > $ wget google.com [...] > > These results seem just as consistent as those from Andrew. > > 3 connections = 15 sec > 2 connections = 10 sec > 1 connection = 5 se

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 02:15:55PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > ... > > > meanwhile, some tests using > > > > time wget http://www.google.com > > ... > > > > real 0m0.279s > > > user 0m0.000s > > > sys 0m

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > meanwhile, some tests using > > time wget http://www.google.com ... > > real 0m0.279s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys0m0.004s > > very consistently. > > on the problem machine, this is typical: ... > >

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried the same test with wget'ing Google, these are the results: $ wget google.com - --2009-12-06 19:05:45-- http://google.com/ Resolving google.com... 74.125.67.100, 74.125.45.100, 74.125.53.100 Connecting to google.com|74.125.67.100|:80... conne

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 09:01:51AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:38:53 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > ... > > > > II) Try a DNS cacher (dnsmasq) > > > > this is a bandaid solution, imo, and may not h

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-06 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:38:53 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote: ... > > II) Try a DNS cacher (dnsmasq) > > this is a bandaid solution, imo, and may not help anyway... We don't try solutions that "may not help"? Anyway, dnsmasq is prob

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 07:44:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:49 +0100 > Nick Douma wrote: > > ... > > > To further elaborate, when I send a message in Thunderbird, I notice > > that the "sending message" dialogue spends most of its time in the > > "Looking up server" stag

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:06:49 +0100 Nick Douma wrote: ... > To further elaborate, when I send a message in Thunderbird, I notice > that the "sending message" dialogue spends most of its time in the > "Looking up server" stage. After that, the mail itself is sent in a > split second. > > Did some

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5-12-2009 17:00, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:41:00PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: >> Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I >> have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especial

Re: Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 03:41:00PM +0100, Nick Douma wrote: > Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I > have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especially > evident when I ssh to another server, while on other workstations > (debian lenny and windows)

Slow connections in Debian squeeze

2009-12-05 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I full-upgraded my Debian installation from lenny to squeeze, I have been experiencing slow connections buildup. This is especially evident when I ssh to another server, while on other workstations (debian lenny and windows) the connection is alm