From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 19:58:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFE9106567A for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:58:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08498FC1C for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so10208ywe.13 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:58:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=behf+u7Xv+K0oTbkR0/jFw3Zfin7lz8Or5cfiU+Ircs=; b=Ae90v4P/3nF3S/Q/UJudFUpRztAKlTZ0X7J014YMvy6taVPdaD5O/gsexekbHL8MKa egEltfVXwIJLmBqGhf6gQsBEdy//zwH9QiSGQQ+odhd0YEQyoC8fdTpW9sPkKHaXLZIg tu4URw0FGo2zBCNL25RukdkFaWzU3E+tE1Vd0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Qf0/vwKlhEHrZmDq590Hd7+2EiR7e+veP0G1yhsqOZcS31KgNnYluk4vOci7WhGpf4 5IDTe8XKAWU1MKjaHMoE0zWMP/5b8OH/ElCVqRbVkwyUJ6hDTDXnqAYDJCm3ZV5+MXNs C/J0cDyJJOw3Pb6O16Aaxm+pjGsoiO89o1Qlc= Received: by 10.142.135.16 with SMTP id i16mr2634126wfd.286.1214942289634; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.156.7 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 12:58:09 -0700 From: "Kurt Buff" To: "Wojciech Puchar" In-Reply-To: <20080701212737.R3432@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48698AB9.7070802@cwis.biz> <20080630190821.1e0cc713@gom.home> <20080630231705.02193cae@verizon.net> <20080630203436.1cc7505d@gom.home> <4869BCB8.9060906@infracaninophile.co.uk> <486A65D0.4090103@ibctech.ca> <20080701212737.R3432@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: prad , Steve Bertrand , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring an older server for speed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:58:11 -0000 On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> Steve >> >> It's been suggested off-list that I put up a caching DNS server. I'm >> in the process of doing that. Initial page load delay, however, is a >> new phenomenon, cropping up after our move from the T1 to the DS3, so >> I was putting it down to increased use of cache - I'm certainly >> willing to be schooled on that, though. We'll see what happens with a >> caching DNS server. > > it's strange at least you haven't it already for a long time. no matter you > use squid or not. it takes 5 minutes to set up, and saves a bit of bandwidth > and a lot of time on resolving hostnames I just looked at my configuration - looks like I had it going at one point, but disabled it, and I can't remember why. This may be the issue. Kurt