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Tony, The problem with Netscape routing some traffic to the www-uk1 and www-uk2 site has been resolved. The problem was caused by a new mirror site's configuration. -- R/Doug ____________________________________________________________ Doug Dalton - Network Manager - Netscape Communications [email protected] - http://home.netscape.com/people/dougs Tony Torzillo wrote: > This may be of interest to anyone who received complaints of slowness to > the Netscape home page yesterday. > > You can't use anything in this message to configure your router. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 14:48:44 -0700 > From: Duane Wessels <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: Jeff Halper <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Netscape sites very slow today > Resent-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:52:20 -0800 (PST) > Resent-From: [email protected] > > Yesterday, Jeff Halper asked this on our squid-users list: > > >I use parent cache sv - noticed it was uusually slow in fetching sites at > >netscape.com today - any suggestions? > > The problem turned out to be sort of interesting, so I thought I'd share > it with you... > > First I thought I'd see if Jeff was imagining things or if there really > was a difference. So I looked at the "service time" value for > *.netscape.com requests from four days of access logs. The results > were: > > Median Service > Date Time (seconds) > ----- -------------- > Jan 3 2.47 > Jan 4 3.47 > Jan 5 5.81 > Jan 6 76.17 > > So obviously, something was seriously wrong. The next thing to try was > a simple ping: > > sv-wessels> ping www.netscape.com > PING www-uk2.netscape.com (195.44.254.3): 56 data bytes > 64 bytes from 195.44.254.3: icmp_seq=5 ttl=248 time=603 ms > 64 bytes from 195.44.254.3: icmp_seq=6 ttl=248 time=550 ms > > Say what? WWW-UK2? > > sv.cache, located at FIX-West, uses ns.arc.nasa.gov for DNS service. > Every time I checked the rest of that day, ns.arc.nasa.gov always > returned www-uk2.netscape.com, even though the DNS TTL was quite low > (less 15 minutes). > > dig @ns.arc.nasa.gov www.netscape.com > > ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> @ns.arc.nasa.gov www.netscape.com > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 10 > ;; flags: qr rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 2, Auth: 3, Addit: 3 > ;; QUESTIONS: > ;; www.netscape.com, type = A, class = IN > > ;; ANSWERS: > www.netscape.com. 94 CNAME www-uk2.netscape.com. > www-uk2.netscape.com. 2344 A 195.44.254.3 > > Looks to me like some DNS smart-resolution feature gone haywire. I > sent mail to [email protected], but have yet to get a reply. > Since it seemed that ns.arc.nasa.gov was not going to "fix itself" any > time soon, I changed sv's resolv.conf to use a different DNS server > temporarily. Today, ns.arc.nasa.gov is giving us good answers > (www24.netscape.com). Shrug. > > Duane W.
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