I have a friend who has a cpanel box that has 1.6 gig P4, 512 Ram, Red hat 7.2, 7200 IDE drives and little to no load. He is having a significant delay in down loading any page from his server over the net. The network has no packet loss and a 60 ms ping time. Pages seem to have a significant delay/pause no matter if it is a basic HTML page or a PHP sys info page.

He also notices when he SSH's into the box the user prompt comes back fairly fast but there is a significant delay getting the password prompt.

Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing the significant page delay? Once the page starts it seems to load at a reasonable rate.

It could be that in the resolve.conf file, the first nameserver listed is not responding, perhaps it hasn't been set yet (or is not running/not configured correctly).

If this is the problem, then there will be a ten second delay while the server does a reverse lookup on the incoming IP address for apache (if host lookups are set to on).

I hope this helps,

Cheers,
Infinite

And the winner is "infinite"

It actually turned out that the Cpanel distributor has left the cpanel name servers in the list 1st and they were non-responsive so it is now fixed.

Thanks,