[FX.php List] Using a web app over a VPN

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

But then again Windows can have that internal domain thing going too...

I do not know windows all that much, I know IPv4 and unix...

ggt

2010/3/25 Chris Hansen <chris at iviking.org>:
> Bob,
>
> I just realized that I've been in a similar situation to yours.  As in your
> case, I had no control over the server.  And they were Windows servers.  I'm
> not sure what the problem was, but it had something to do with "packets
> being dropped" between the two machines.  Yeah, that's pretty vague, but it
> does sound like what could well be going on in your case.  Unfortunately, I
> have no means of getting additional details.  (I spoke with my client, who
> spoke to his contact, who spoke with the network guys...)
>
> The thing is, I would think that the logs would indicate that there were
> problems.  Is there any way your client would look for a more responsive
> provider?  (My guess is no, since much of what you've said makes it sound to
> me like they've been using these guys for some time.)  *sigh*
>
> May the FMorce be with you...
>
> --Chris
>
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Bob Patin wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:
>>
>>> Is it really slow, or is it taking long before something happens at
>>> normal speed?
>>
>> The web server itself isn't slow, but when it starts to do a transaction,
>> it takes forever; you can see it yourself at this link:
>>
>> https://www.titanicpigeonforge.com/ticket_date.php
>>
>> This is a simple little page that does one query and pulls 4 records (the
>> ticket types offered on the web). Should take nothing to do.
>>
>> Pick any date after April 8th (dates before then aren't available--the 8th
>> is opening day).
>>
>> You'll see that the 2nd page takes at least 10-20 seconds, sometimes as
>> much as a minute, to process; there are only 2 queries on the page. Again,
>> it should be pretty snappy.
>>
>> The woman at the company asked one of the tech geeks to look at my PHP to
>> "see if there was anything wrong with it." Totally pissed me off,
>> considering that a) he doesn't know squat about PHP, and b) I've already
>> shown them that it runs great on my machines, and c) it ran fine when the 2
>> machines were in a LAN. But this is what you get sometimes with clients...
>>>
>>> 1) taking long before something happens at normal speed is very often
>>> meaning DNS problem, check if the problem varporizes if you use IP
>>> addresses instead of names
>>
>> Not using a name to define the location of the WPE. Can't use an IP for
>> the transactions because it's using an SSL certificate; I'd test with an IP
>> address if I knew their directory structure, but I don't.
>>
>> If you try the link above but without "https" you'll see the same
>> slowness.
>>
>> If whatever they try tonight doesn't solve it, I may ask them for the
>> whole directory path so that we can test with an IP address...
>>
>> However, it's not a speed issue with either machine; I've done speed tests
>> on the database server, by using Remote Desktop to get to it, and it's
>> always running at least at 1.5Mbs, usually faster, and 2.6 download. The web
>> server's on a 100MBs pipe.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
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