What did you revise in your httpd.conf file? My guess is that you enabled DNS lookups for the connecting clients. On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED<m_d_berger_1900@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My web server is a CentOS box thus: > > [root ~]# uname -a > Linux mbrc21 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue > Dec 16 12:03:43 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > root ~]# rpm -q httpd > httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.2 > > My development and standby is on a Fedora box thus: > > [root ~]# uname -a > Linux mbrc32 2.6.23.17-88.fc7 #1 SMP Thu > May 15 00:35:10 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > [root@ ~]# rpm -q httpd > httpd-2.2.8-1.fc7 > > They are close neighbors on my LAN. > > Now I recently revised my httpd.conf making it somewhat > more complex and adding ssl for part of it. Running the > same configuration on both boxes, I find that the Fedora > box runs rapidly, while the CentOS box is very slow. > > Examining the situation with WireShark on both boxes I > find that in responding to a simple GET, the CentOS box > does a sequence of DNS queries to resolve the details of > the location of the client IP address, whereas the > Fedora box does no such thing. It ts these DNS queries > that are causing the slow response. > > Now if I revert to the old configuration, there is no > such problem and WireShark shows that there are no DNS > queries. > > Advice on how to proceed would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Mike. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos