[squid-users] A single website is loading slow

I am having issues with just a single website loading very very slowly
through Squid. The problematic website loads fine without a proxy but
takes several minutes to load through Squid. All other websites load
perfectly fine. I have tried the following:

1) I originally thought the issue was DNS related so I changed the
nameservers that Squid uses by using "dns_nameservers". I tried
several different local nameservers and then eventually tried free
services such as Google's and OpenDNS's. No luck.

2) To further convince myself it was not DNS, I entered the website's
IP/host information into /etc/hosts and used Squid's "hosts_file"
directive to use /etc/hosts. This did not help either.

Squid was restarted each time after making the above changes.

Here are the access.log entries related to loading the website (URL
and IP addresses have been changed).

1283907376.404 320 222.222.222.222 TCP_MISS/301 508 GET
http://website.com username DIRECT/111.111.111.111 text/html
1283907415.924 39277 222.222.222.222 TCP_MISS/200 62371 GET
http://www.website.com/ username DIRECT/111.111.111 text/html

As you can see, the first log entry appears quickly after attempting
to load the website. The title of the website appears in the web
browser's title bar almost immediately but the content of the website
does not load until much later.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Ron
Received on Wed Sep 08 2010 - 02:31:51 MDT