[outages] w3.org dtd files really slow?

[Mike]

We're running web apps that require the use of W3's dtd files.

We're getting some serious timeouts.

$ time curl -I http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/HTMLlat1.ent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:27:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2
Last-Modified: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 23:26:00 GMT
ETag: "2eb4-35c73f0bc5200"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 11956
Cache-Control: max-age=7776000
Expires: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:27:20 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml"
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml-external-parsed-entity


real	0m29.297s
user	0m0.007s
sys	0m0.005s

As well as when we try caching the file locally, we're getting a ton
of app errors when it tries to consume it.

Anyone else?

-Michael