On Friday 08 June 2007 19:24, Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> Grant wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what Firefox is doing when it says it is
> > "Connecting" to a particular website?  My site is periodically hanging
> > at that point, and I'd like to track down the problem.  Is it just
> > waiting for apache2's first response to the HTTP request?
>
> No, Firefox is propably waiting for the TCP connection to be
> established. Use something like wireshark or tcpdump to find out for sure.

I was trying to login (via ssh) to a virtual server and it was taking ages (19 
secs or so).  Apparently there was something wrong with the way the sysadmin 
had set up DNS.  Once fixed I would be asked for a passwd with 1-2 seconds.  
It could be that something like this is wrong with your server?
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Regards,
Mick