Three-minute timeout during surfing?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Ken Ambrose wrote:

=>Howdy, all.  I just upgraded my boxen to RH 7.3, and suddenly my webmail
=>(SquirrelMail) is taking three minutes just to bring up the login page.  I
=>double-checked my httpd.conf file, and HostnameLookups is set to off, so I
=>don't -think- it's a reverse-DNS issue.  I'm stumped.  Below is a snippet
=>from an ethereal dump.  Any ideas?
=>
=>GET /src/login.php HTTP/1.1
=>Host: webmail.xanoptix.com
=>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9)
=>Gecko/20020408
=>Accept:
=>text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1
=>Accept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50
=>Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9
=>Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66
=>Keep-Alive: 300
=>Connection: keep-alive
=>Cookie: PHPSESSID=4e0a82542cee47993ed47768344a8362; key=SFW81UI5V1Y%3D
=>
=> ----- insert three-minute wait here -----
=>
=>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
=>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 05:54:03 GMT
=>Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_python/2.7.6
=>Python/1.5.2 mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.1.2
=>mod_perl/1.26 mod_throttle/3.1.2
=>X-Powered-By: PHP/4.1.2
=>
=>Note that the top portion is all "from" me, and the bottom portion is from
=>the server.
=>
=>Thanks!
=>
=>-Ken
I bet you a beer that if everyone is running identd, your delay will go 
away.

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