[outages] w3.org dtd files really slow?

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike" <miketheman at gmail.com>

> We're running web apps that require the use of W3's dtd files.
> 
> We're getting some serious timeouts.

Slow here, too; Road Runner Lightning Tampa Bay:

jra at elphaba:/appl/downloads> time -p curl -I http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/HTMLlat1.ent
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:15:14 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 17:15:14 GMT
P3P: policyref="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml"
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/xml-external-parsed-entity

real 30.60
user 0.00
sys 0.00
$

Just for giggles, I checked the DNS resolve; 15ms on the second hit, but 
a second curl was still slow.

Cheers,
-- jra
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