Brian Pendleton scribbled on Saturday, February 25, 2006 10:05 AM:
> I just thought that while we're on the subject of network issues etc, > I'd bring up one problem that I've been having lately. I'm living in > Heritage Halls (for the moment) and I've been having some web > problems lately. I'm just curious if anyone else has experienced > something similar. Two issues could be at hand. The first is that Heritage is on hubs. 10 Mbit hubs to be exact. That means that when Joe down the hall starts downloading at 300 KB/s, that traffic gets replicated across 24 to 48 ports. This would easily cause a shaky network connection and explains why you experience it during "high traffic" times of day. The other issue could be one that doesn't happen often, which is why it hasn't been fixed yet (it's usually hard to reproduce reliably). It is a problem with the BYU's DNS/proxy and the only option is to open a trouble ticket with OIT, give them as much information as possible, and hope for the best. Because you say other protocols seem to be fine, I am led to believe that yours is the second issue. You can always double check because if the ping times to www.byu.edu are consistently high (over 100 ms) then your hub is being brought down by one of your neighbors. If the ping times are pretty stable (usually every third request spikes, but the other two are sub-20ms), it's the second issue that's been eluding the network engineers. They are aware of it, and I have been in the room when some of them (the engineers) have had the problem themselves. Brian > > The problem is that web sites very frequently time out. These aren't > random sites with slow connections, but major sites like > securityfocus etc. When I connect to a server the first time (eg > follow a link to that page etc) I usually just sit there with > "Establishing connection to www.secutiryfocus.com." If I stop/reload > a few times then the page will eventually come up very fast. I'll > either time out completely or connect quickly. Once I connect for > the first time I don't usually have any more > problems on that server (I can browse to other pages etc with no > problems). Sometimes going to the google cache then clicking a link > makes > it work fine *shrug*. It's usually worse at high-traffic times of > day. > Other protocals don't seem to have problems. I'm guessing that this > is some kind of issue with the byu proxy server. Any ideas on what > it is/how to fix it? > > I use Opera as my main web browser, but the same thing happens with > firefox, linx, or anything else. I run Gentoo 1.4. One of my > roomates also has problems like that sometimes (win2k/firefox). Any > ideas are welcome. It's really getting annoying to reload pages > three times before they come up. > > Thanks! > -Brian > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or > BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
