Re: [squid-users] Delay of initial response from server

Sounds like a DNS-problem to me. Are you probably asking a dead DNS?
If you do, the second DNS will be asked after a timeout. After that,
squid cache the IP.
Try to access some sites using the IP instead of the FQDN. Do you have a
local DNS on your machine?

Regards, Hendrik

Jim McCarty wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'm fairly new to squid (running v2.5 stable on Mac OS 10.2.8) but
> managed to get it running successfully with my old cable connection
> (dynamic IP, server sitting behind Linksys router w/NAT). I would tunnel
> in via ssh and use squid as my proxy from work.
>
> I recently switched to DSL (still dynamic IP, but now sitting behind an
> Actiontec router w/NAT). I still tunnel in via ssh and for the first day
> or two, everything worked great. Then I had connection problem getting
> out of my LAN which meant that my squid cache wasn't working either. I
> tried many things via the command line (over another ssh connection)
> including flushing the cache and restarting the squid process. Turned
> out that the issue was a DNS configuration problem that I resolved once
> I got home.
>
> However, now all of my initial connections (first time access to a site
> or after an extended absence) through squid can take upwards to a minute
> or more before anything is retrieved. I've sat watching the access.log
> and after making the request for a new site in my browser, nothing shows
> up in the access log for quite a while, then a flurry of activity while
> the page loads. Subsequent page requests from the same domain are served
> immediately.
>
> What could cause this kind of problem and how can I fix it? I've
> searched the FAQ and the mail archives but did not see an answer. There
> was a similar query on the list back in 2002 but no answer that I could
> see.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
>
Received on Tue May 18 2004 - 12:22:06 MDT