Re: production web servers on hpux

[Justin Wood <justin@flipdog.com>]

Actually we are not doing reverse lookups.  It's very strange - I'll sit
on the box running apache, and telnet to localhost port 80.  Every few
minutes it will delay the connection.

-Justin.

Jonathan Crompton wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > My company is in the process of moving our site from Solaris to HPUX.
> > We're running into some strange errors when doing this.  Apache stays up
> > and running, however it _delays_ connections - doesn't drop them or stop
> > accepting, just delays them (for up to 10+ seconds).
> 
> My first guess would be that you are doing reverse DNS lookups for
> each incoming connection e.g. you have 'HostnameLookups On' and that
> the reverse lookups are causing the delay.  Try some reverse lookups
> from the command line.
> 
> HTH,
> Jonathan.