Re: browsing Apache server within LAN SLOW!

I tinkered around, and the slowness went away when I turned hostname
lookups to off...
not sure why this has changed with 2.0, but, it did.
There needs to be a fix for this as I want the speed of 1.3 with
hostname lookups on....




"A L" <a_lindeman@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<vamcnR_hfPFl53ujXTWcpA@comcast.com>...
> Hi-
>
> I'm not 100% certain my problem has to do with Apache only (although I'm 98%
> sure!)- FTP seems to be a bit slow too (logins are, transferring isn't bad
> though.) I do NOT have this problem from outside my router/cable modem!
> This problem occurs for both static pages and dynamically generated pages.
>
> Whenever I try to browse my server either from the server or from another
> computer in the LAN, the speeds are really slow- and pages often time out.
> Here are important stats:
>
> Red Hat 9.0
> P2-400MHz
> Red Hat's Apache 2.0.40 build 21
>
> I have a wireless router hooking up the computers. The router is plugged
> into a cable modem. The server is wired into the router. The router claims
> to be switched, not shared hub.
>
> I've been a tad slow at diagnosing this problem- I've actually had it for
> the last couple of years. I recently upgraded from Red Hat 7.3 to 9.0. I
> also had the problem with all the Red Hat's 7.x. I don't think I had it
> with Red Hat 6.x. I recently replaced a wired router for my wireless
> router- and had the same problem with the old router.
>
> I have a domain- let's call it domain.com. The router is configured to pass
> all port 80 queries on to the linux box. I have a DDNS service passing all
> domain.com traffic onto the outside IP address of my router.
>
> Browsing the server from inside the LAN with both http://domain.com/webpage
> and http://explicit_name.domain.com/webpage prove to be slow. It's also
> slow if I use the IP address. The IP address of my Linux box is "hard
> coded" (not DHCP...)
>
> I also use IMAP and Samba from the linux box within the LAN- I don't have
> any speed problems there.
>
> Thanks for any help or pushes in the right direction!
>
> ps- my server's CPU isn't loaded- it's hardly utilized...