see the ping delay of my proxy server. see first few lines which is before download when i start download a huge file it when to 3000 which is too much and this is the only reason i think why it is happening. now at the bottem of this ping responce you will see when i cancled the download job things back to normal. 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7361 ttl=54 time=70.3 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7368 ttl=54 time=68.0 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7369 ttl=54 time=70.6 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7370 ttl=54 time=196 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7371 ttl=54 time=787 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7372 ttl=54 time=1141 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7373 ttl=54 time=1689 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7374 ttl=54 time=2113 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7375 ttl=54 time=2262 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7376 ttl=54 time=2806 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7377 ttl=54 time=3083 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7378 ttl=54 time=3181 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7386 ttl=54 time=1846 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7387 ttl=54 time=1923 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7388 ttl=54 time=1807 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7389 ttl=54 time=831 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7390 ttl=54 time=71.2 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7391 ttl=54 time=69.2 ms 64 bytes from del01s05-in-f7.1e100.net (74.125.236.7): icmp_req=7392 ttl=54 time=69.3 ms On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan <sirtcp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > i am using squid 2.7 stable 9 with pdns as Caching DNS. > i have 4 Mbps internet link. when ever any client start download any > big file my squid gives the full threshold to the downloading session > and on other computers people see > > The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: > http://www.google.com.pk/ > > Unable to determine IP address from host name www.google.com.pk > > The DNS server returned: > > Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query. > This means that the cache was not able to resolve the hostname > presented in the URL. Check if the address is correct. > > Your cache administrator is webmaster. > > sorry to compare ISA here because i recently been shifted from ISA to > squid so i have to reference that in ISA if some one downloads then it > also handls other quires. of course bandwidth has been distributed and > performance was slow but didn't give the full threshold to just one > client. > > when i ping to any outside host it gives me 4 figure value/ > > delay pool, i dont wana use it. > > so i dont know how to track it down. please help me out. > > Thanks,