[outages] w3.org dtd files really slow?

[Jason Hellenthal]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:28:29AM -0400, Mike wrote:
> 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?
> 

Same here coming from Charter in West Michigan

% /usr/bin/time -p curl -I http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/HTMLlat1.ent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:42:46 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 15:42:46 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml"
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml-external-parsed-entity

real 29.38
user 0.04
sys 0.00


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