Suddenly, today, out of nowhere something changed on my system and I
can't explain it.
I happen to use cURL extensively directly and in some applescripts that
I created.
The change is that now, for some reason, each transaction with curl is
slow to initiate. It doesn't start before 30 seconds elapse. It's
slowing my work considerably. Some of the applescripts that I used
initiate several curl sessions in a row to send files to multiple
servers. So add 30 seconds exactly to each connection and I'm wasting a
lot of time waiting around.
I tracked a possible cause of the problem to a dead DNS server that I
had in my network preferences and in the Air****t's config.
I removed the DNS server from both and I rebooted the computer (intel
iMac with 10.5.2); I restarted the Air****t Extreme that I have (latest
model), I even unplugged it for more than 20 minutes and shutdown my
computer. I cleared the DNS cache on the computer more than once. All to
no avail.
The other thing affected is the speed of sftp connections in Interarchy.
Those are slow to initiate too, but once the first connection works,
subsequent sftp transfers start fast.
Browsing, email, nntp are all working as usual. The only thing affected
are sftp and cURL.
Any suggestions? is there some cache that I couldn't find?
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