Usually, I install a DNS Cache into my Squid box to get a faster responds and decrease network load..
Rgds, Awie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Nordstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Graham Leggett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid hangs for 9 seconds before serving a page > Not normal. > > My guess is a DNS problem of some kind. > > Regards > Henrik > > > Graham Leggett wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a squid squid-2.4.STABLE6-6.7.3 server (packaged by Redhat) > > configured as a transparent proxy. > > > > Accessing webpages without the proxy there results in an immediate > > return of a result. With the squid proxy in place, an approximately 9 > > second delay is introduced between the page being submitted and the > > result being returned. > > > > This same delay is apparent no matter whether squid has just started up, > > or if it has been running for a while, and is unrelated to memory size. > > DNS lookups are switched off. > > > > Is there anything else I should be checking? Could this be squid trying > > to do ident lookups? If so, how do I switch it off - I could find no > > options related to ident except for an ident timeout option - I set it > > to 1 second, but it made no difference. > > > > I looked in the FAQ for issues relating to slowness, but it only made > > reference to memory, which is not a problem. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Regards, > > Graham > > -- > > ----------------------------------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There's a moon > > over Bourbon Street > > tonight..."