[ILUG] server slow down

[bobb]

John Hegarty hath declared on Tuesday the 27 day of April 2004  :-:
 
> However, last week it seems to have slowed down but I can't trace the
> problem. 

> When users load up the intranet homepage (from linux, XP or win98) it
> takes about 15 seconds whereas in the past it was instant. It doesn't
> make any difference if you use the ip address rather than the server
> name.

Sounds suspiously like a DNS problem.
At a guess, I reccon the client connects to the server, the server
then attempts to do a reverse lookup on the cluents ip, it can't, 
the lookup fails after a couple of seconds and the connection continues....

Check what dns server(s) your server is configured to query (/etc/resolv.conf)
and check that it is able to communicate with them, that they are running
a name service and will answer queries on the IP's and host names of the
server and clients.... don't forget things like ipchains on the server...

Also check the DNS config on the clients, though they are probably ok...

- bobb

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