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Long time resolving www - faster w/o the www

Posted by naplesdave, 09-12-2011, 11:37 AM

Hello all, I am running Apache 2.2 on CENTOS 5.5 i686 with WHM 11.30.3 (build 5) and by using Pingdom and Webpagetest I am seeing a 5 sec delay between first byte and resolution of www on one of my Wordpress sites. The site was setup in Wordpress to use the www and not simply //sitename... I LOVE the speed I get when checking my site without the www, but when it sits and resolves, this is taking 5 to 10 seconds - dramatically slowing my site. Where should I start to look for issues? Once it gets going it runs fine; just the initial resolving that is stalling out somehow. Thanks for any help/tip. Kind regards, Dave Jackson Naples, FL

Posted by SeriesN, 09-12-2011, 11:40 AM

May be check the A record and see if it is pointing instead of a forwarding?

Posted by ssfred, 09-13-2011, 01:12 AM

Hello Make sure your DNS zone file contains correct entries for WWW as well. Then perform a traceroute to the IP and ensure that the transient path is smooth.

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