[squid-users] Delay fetching web pages

Hi all

I'm running squid 3.1.10 on a RHEL6.2 box. When I point my clients at
it, the clients experience about a 2 minute 20 second delay between
sending the request to squid and the request being fulfilled.

For example

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wget http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml -P /tmp
--2012-03-28 13:26:20--  http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml
Resolving benpxy1p... 172.22.106.10
Connecting to benpxy1p|172.22.106.10|:3128... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: â/tmp/waall.shtml.3â
    [   <=>
                      ] 227,349      390K/s   in 0.6s
2012-03-28 13:28:42 (390 KB/s) - â/tmp/waall.shtml.3â=
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The delay is consistent across all of the clients using this proxy server.
If I ssh onto the proxy server and set 'http_proxy' to be this proxy
servers cache parent, then the file is fetched almost immediately.
For example
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wget http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml
--2012-03-28 13:41:17--  http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/observations/waall.shtml
Resolving horizon-proxy.ads.horizonpower.com.au... 172.22.0.7
Connecting to horizon-proxy.ads.horizonpower.com.au|172.22.0.7|:8200...
connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: âwaall.shtml.1â
    [   <=>
                ] 227,349      412K/s   in 0.5s
2012-03-28 13:41:18 (412 KB/s) - âwaall.shtml.1â
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Any ideas?
Thanks
CC
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