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Bare with me here...

I am running Geeklog 1.4.1 on my Mac OS X ( 10.4.8 ) box with Mysql 4.0.21 and PHP 4.3.11.

I use no-ip.com as a DDNS service with a domain name like this: mydomainname.no-ip.com

So in order to browse my web site from the same machine it is running on I have edited my hosts file to include a line like this:

127.0.0.1 mydomainname.no-ip.com

(This domain name matches the geeklog config file as well)

This has worked very well up until the past day or so. The big change is that I went from a belkin router at home to a Linksys router. You wouldn't think that would make a difference on the local machine.

To muddy the waters further... I run many different PHP/MYSQL packages on this same box. Such as Joomla. The other packages all run fine and open almost instantaneously... geeklog is the only one that when I try to access it it takes several minutes to open. Once open, it takes several minutes to navigate from page to page.

I have a fairly vanilla geeklog install. I had the GUS (1.7.0) plugin running which I have disabled, and the rest are native plugins that come installed.

I'm just wondering what it is that geeklog is doing that causes it to hang when opening from the localhost machine? It feels like it is trying to resolve my domain name to the external IP and thus reaking havoc, but I can't figure out why when performing local pings or local lookups all point to the 127.0.0.1 loopback address like they should.

Feel free to try and pull it up externally... I suspect it will open right up.

http://beandip.no-ip.com/

Thanks for any suggestions.

Upon further investigation it appears that even people hitting the site externally are suffering from extremely long load times... what in the world could have changed in my router switch over that would cause ONLY geeklog to suffer such abysmal performance... What could my linksys router do to internal network routing that would be so bad?

I know this is not a networking forum, but since it is only affecting my Geeklog install I'm just at wits end.

Update: I've upgraded to Mysql version 5.0.27. No positive effect.

When you load a page in Geeklog it tells you at the bottom of the page how many seconds it took to deliver the page... on average it is 75 seconds. Eek.

Okay... so if I unplug my network cable from the linksys router then Geeklog instantly responds the way it is supposed to. Plug the network cable back into the router and boom... back to taking 75 seconds to load a page.

Again... Mambo, Joomla, other static and dymanic mysql/php apps run wonderfully whether the network cable is plugged into the Linksys router or not...

What in the heck is Geeklog doing in terms of name resolution that other apps don't do? And why does that mystery behavior really dislike my linksys router...

Anyone else running a Geeklog site plugged directly into a Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 (4.30.7 firmware) router? Anyone?

People are reading this topic, but obviously I'm completely alone in this one.

Okay.. fixed.

I'm only slightly embarassed to admit this... however here is what the problem was.

I had a block on the left side that contained a random quote generated from qotd.org. Apparently their service or site is having some serious problems which led the entire geeklog site to suffer. In fact it appears that qotd.org is not even resolvable to me.

Solution: Disable that block.

Funny stuff... thank god none of you decided to stop by and waste any time trying to help me troubleshoot it. :-)