Re: [squid-users] Facebook page very slow to respond

On 10/11/2011 7:47 AM, Ed W wrote:
> On 08/10/2011 20:25, Wilson Hernandez wrote:
>> Thanks for replying.
>>
>> Well, our cache.log looks ok. No real problems there but, will be
>> monitoring it closely to check if there is something unusual.
>>
>> As for the DNS, we have local DNS server inside our LAN that is used
>> by 95% of the machines. This server uses our provider's servers as
>> well as google's:
>>
>> forwarders {
>> 8.8.8.8;
>> 196.3.81.5;
>> 196.3.81.132;
>> };
>>
>> Our users are just driving me crazy with calls regarding facebook: "is
>> slow", "doesn't work", and a lot other complaints...
>>
> Occasionally you will find that Google DNS servers get "poisoned" and
> take you to a non local facebook page. I guess run dig against specific
> servers and be sure you are ending up on a server which doesn't have
> some massive ping to it? I spent a while debugging a similar problem
> where the BBC home page got suddenly slow on me because I was being
> redirected to some german akamai site rather than the UK one...
>
> This is likely to make a difference between snappy and sluggish though,
> not "dead"...
Let me remove google's DNS and continue testing Facebook sluggishness.

Thanks for replying.

> Good luck
>
> Ed W
>
Received on Tue Oct 11 2011 - 13:34:11 MDT