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cheezus_115419
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May 07, 2013

Slow first outbound connection. Fast subsequent connections.

The problem is that the first outbound connection from a server to a host is very slow. The second and subsequent connections are very fast. We are testing wget 100m test files over http from vario...
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May 16, 2013
Thanks for the info! I'll pass this along with our consultant today and see what he says.

 

 

The design is because we have ~1000 servers, and rapidly expanding, behind the viprions (web hosting). We don't want to push backup server traffic through the viprions. Also there's a lot of remote logging / perf monitoring / etc.. traffic that we don't want to through them either. If they were the default then all this traffic would flow through them and we really don't want that happening.