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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:52:55 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <51ulln$160@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51mod4$f7@umbc7.umbc.edu> <s8hgot6wgb.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: hamilton.maths.tcd.ie Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!chronos.syr.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:130417 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27633 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> writes: >Keep in mind that the default setup of Apache may dispatch pages >slower than NT just because it does a hostname lookup from the >incoming connection. Try to download a set of pages from a stock >Apache server from a machine without a name and see what happens. >Fixing this is easy: just tell Apache not to do DNS reverse lookups. Not that there is any good reason why a machine shouldn't have DNS records. I'm considering denying people with no DNS records access here, like the good old anonymous ftp people do... David ( on a crusade ;-).