[TriLUG] Need help finding bottleneck

[Jeremy Portzer]

I have the exact same problem on the home network I manage at my parents' 
house.  The issue seems to be the Netgear Mr314v2 router in use.  What 
router make/model do you have?  Also make sure you have the latest 
firmware.

I attempted to get around the issue with with a DNS server, but couldn't
convince the router to pass out the local DNS server IP with its DHCP
credentials.  The only solution would have been to turn off DHCP entirely 
and run DHCP and DNS both from my internal server, something I didn't want 
to do (it would break the network if the server went down).

So right now I'm looking at getting a new router.  Any ideas on router 
models that don't have this issue would be appreciated.  Modifying 
/etc/hosts is *not* a solution because of laptops that are sometimes 
connected to other networks.

Thanks,
Jeremy

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Roy Vestal wrote:

> Hey guys...need some troubleshooting help...
> 
> Symptom:
> when I load my webpage from home, or my gallery, it takes literally 
> minutes to load. http://website/gallery for example can take upto 5 min 
> to load.
> 
> When I'm at work, it loads great, within just a few seconds.
> 
> Hardware setup:
> 
> Webserver:
> P3 550MHz
> 256MB
> CentOS 4.4 / Apache 2.something
> 100MB
> cable modem - std account
> dyndns free name hosting
> router/firewall
> 
> Question:
>   Would a local caching dns server help?
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> Roy
> 
> 
> 

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