A case of Epic beer to the first person...

I'll buy a case of Epic beer to the first person* that can solve my networking problem at home, (special conditions apply of course).

I have a Debian server on one end of my desk that hosts this website and a PC at the other end of my desk that I'm writing this on now. The web server happily serves pages to the outside world ok but takes 4 minutes to serve a page on my internal network. They are both connected to the same switch.

The network is fine because Synergy works perfectly between the PC and the server. Transferring files between them is perfect. But either apache or PHP or MySQL is causing very slow page lad times.

DNS appears fine. The server is not loaded. No IO issues and no swapping.

Any suggestions of where to look, anyone?

Bloody hell I hate computers. They completely give me the shits.

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It's our shadow somewhere over the Waikato from our flight on Saturday afternoon.

*You have to collect the beer, I cannot ship it.

Captured: 2007:09:15 14:05:59
Posted: Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 6:43 pm

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I won't help for Epic beer. You wanna change the brand?
So how do you connect to the server, whats the domainname and to what does it resolve? Is it the external IP? Did you do some tracerting?
Olly @ Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 9:56 pm
Server is on the same switch as PC, domainname is www.spudooli.com and I have that along with it's private IP address in my hosts file. Never throught to do a traceroute. Both devices are on my internal network
Dave @ Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 10:01 pm
I suggest you comment the entry in your hosts file, flush the dns on your pc and see what happens. Good luck! How do you rate Epic beer, mate?
Jody @ Thursday, September 20, 2007, 3:40 am
Two stupid questions that you've possibly already tried:
1. It's very easy for people who think about software all day to entirely forget about hardware. Have you checked the switchport and cable to your internal PC and its NIC?
2. Have you turned up the loglevel to debug in apache to see what is happening at a low level when you request a page internally?

Oh, and a third question:

You clearly have excellent taste in beer (it seems Epic is going almost mainstream now, good on it, couldn't happen to a nicer beer) - have you considered joining SOBA? I'd post a link but your blog might think I'm a spammer rather than a passionate beer advocate. ;) www dot soba dot org dot nz. You know you want to.
Greig @ Thursday, September 20, 2007, 8:14 am
Make sure reverse DNS lookup either (a) works, or (b) is turned off in the Apache config. Docs: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#hostnamelookups
Rob @ Thursday, September 20, 2007, 9:14 am
apt-get install mtr
mtr your-pc-hostname

then try
route

it will be your dns resolv setup broke, cat /etc/resolv.conf
jamesh @ Thursday, September 20, 2007, 9:35 am
stop hosting that stuff AT HOME and move it to somewhere we can really take care of it.
That will solve your problems.

That'll be one case of epic, thanks.
Mike @ Thursday, September 20, 2007, 10:44 am
Given that none of the comments above solve your problem and are clearly not beer worthy, I suggest you get a geek in. I'll collect my Epic on Sunday thanks.
Rik @ Thursday, September 20, 2007, 11:10 am
I'm so pissed I didn't get to go flying :( Next time. Oh - this is an awesome shot!
Darren Wood @ Thursday, September 20, 2007, 4:55 pm
hey, wild guess here you never know you may have gone over the limit (internet download wise) and you may have been "punished" back down to dial up speed. this wouldn't affect your lan ( your pc and server) but anything outside this would be affected whether uploading or downloading. in which case you would have to wait till your isp takes your limiter off, or contact your isp and explain your situation.
as i say.. just a guess as i recently had some problems of this sort. Hope it helps

Aidan @ Friday, September 21, 2007, 9:15 am
Alright, I'll take a crack. I assume you're trying to access your server with www.spudooli.com.
Create an entry in your windows hosts file which points www.spudooli.com to the internal IP address of your server. Once you've made the change, completely quit your browser, reopen and try browsing to www.spudooli.com.

cheers
Steve Baker @ Friday, November 21, 2008, 2:38 pm

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