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Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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Date: 
Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:21:46 GMT
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Is it possible there's any firewall issues? I know at work I regularly
see situations where it takes ages for a page to come up, during which
time, I can't do anything else in Netscape because the whole thing is
locked up (it won't even re-paint windows). This is Netscape 3.01 on
AIX. I've suspected this to be an issue of how DNS works with the
firewall, but it could also be a problem with TCP session establishment
(and remember that jump.cgi does also impose an extra TCP session on the
process). This extreme delay comes and goes (but definitely is worst
around 9:00 AM and around lunchtime (which I'm assuming are browsing
peaks).

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Frank Filz

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  Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
 
(...) Well, not quite...I'm not ready to posit a cause-effect chain. I was merely trying to say that I couldn't fathom how the script itself could add anything more than a small fraction of a second. Slow DNS is one possible answer, but if it (...) (24 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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