On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:12 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
... > meanwhile, some tests using > > time wget http://www.google.com ... > > real 0m0.279s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys 0m0.004s > > very consistently. > > on the problem machine, this is typical: ... > > real 0m5.280s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys 0m0.004s > > the pause is at the "Resolving www.google.com..." line for 5 seconds, > very consistently. > > interestingly this doesn't happen with ping... > > and nsloopup www.google.com works just fine as well with something > like 0.05s real time. > > I also see the delay with w3m, which points to the problem being in > some common http library? Anyway, the delay is consistent at around 5 > seconds. Try some other protocols? An ever better idea: use netcat or telnet to talk to google.com on port 80 - same server and port, but no client side HTTP stuff, just plain text going out over the wire. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
