RE: ads.midrange.com

Is the archive server the reason for the slowdown when this is showing in the status bar?:
  Connect: Host ads.midrange.com contacted.  Waiting for reply.

That sounds like a different beast altogether.  I have had slow response times before with the archive.midrange.com page trying to load.  But with the above message, it didn't seem to me that archive.midrange.com was involved.  I see this message with www.midrange.com as well.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
D.Bale@Handleman.com
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------

-----Original Message-----
From:   David Gibbs [SMTP:david@midrange.com]
Sent:   Thursday, August 09, 2001 6:28 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: ads.midrange.com

Sorry, the archive server is *NOT* an AS400 and thus the database needed to
be restarted :(

It should be responding properly now.

david

At 02:50 PM 8/9/2001, you wrote:
>I know almost nothing about how web pages work or what you call the part
>of the URL that comes right after the http:// and before the first
>period.  Normally this is "www", but in some cases it isn't.  When
>trying to access any of the *.midrange.com site, and in particular
>http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/, it seems that the browser gets
>stuck with:
>
>      Connect: Host ads.midrange.com contacted.  Waiting for reply.
>
>which sits there for about two minutes, doing seemingly nothing.  Once
>the "ads." message disappears, the rest of the page loads fairly
>quickly.  I'm guessing that the ads.midrange.com is actually hitting
>something external to David's server to fetch ads?  Is there any way to
>speed up this page, either on my end or on David's?  Absolutely no
>offense intended David!  I'm just not a good waiter!  ;-)
>
>Dan Bale
>IT - AS/400
>Handleman Company
>248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
>D.Bale@Handleman.com
>   Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
>   (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)