my proxy is slow

Wed Dec 22 12:21:27 UTC 2004

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:37, M E Fieu wrote:
> Hi.. i configure my squid proxy and everything seems fine but my I found
> that it is slow.  For example when I click COMPOSE icon in my yahoo mail,
> it takes long time.  Why?  Is there any way to tune it faster?

In my experience the DNS is the one that normaly slows down the internet 
surfing. Either taking too long to reslove or timing out. Check that you are 
getting a faster response from the DNS. Use dig or nslookup

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