Slow response from homepage

[Bruce Smith_2]

My server is running Radhat 6.2, 2.2.14 with Apache 1.3.14. I am unable to display the home page without waiting for about 1 minute. Can anybody suggest what to do to stop the delay?

[Mike McKinlay]

Bruce -- a lot of things can cause such a problem. We're going to need more information.

Are you attempting to display the homepage from the server, from a local area network connection, or the Internet?

Do telnets or FTPs into the system encounter similar delays?

What does the homepage look like? Lots of graphics? If you use a simple "Hello World" homepage is the response time just as bad?

What browser are you running?

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

This does seem like a DNS problem.

Maybe your system first tries you r ISP's DNS servers before checking your local hosts file. If your IP addresses or not 'official' IP addresses, the resolver times out and check your hosts file.

This order (first DNS, then files) is specified in the file /etc/host.conf. Reversing the order to hosts,bind might solve your problem.

Hope this helps,
Rik.