UK Federation metadata issues

[Matthew Slowe]

Dave,

A couple of tests (from the UK on JANET) have got the whole file in 20-30 seconds:

$ time curl -sv http://metadata.ukfederation.org.uk/ukfederation-metadata.xml >/dev/null
* About to connect() to metadata.ukfederation.org.uk port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 129.215.135.212... connected
* Connected to metadata.ukfederation.org.uk (129.215.135.212) port 80 (#0)
> GET /ukfederation-metadata.xml HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 NSS/3.18 Basic ECC zlib/1.2.3 libidn/1.18 libssh2/1.4.2
> Host: metadata.ukfederation.org.uk
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:36:43 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
< Last-Modified: Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:33:00 GMT
< ETag: "13d7738-6a8f2700"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 20805432
< Content-Type: application/samlmetadata+xml
<
{ [data not shown]
* Connection #0 to host metadata.ukfederation.org.uk left intact
* Closing connection #0

real	0m21.644s
user	0m0.101s
sys	0m0.223s


Matthew




On 09/10/2015, 12:11, "users on behalf of Dave Perry" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of Dave.Perry at hull-college.ac.uk> wrote:

>Is anyone else having it take AGES (as in minutes) to download the metadata today, when restarting the IdP? I checked the file size from last time (a few months ago) and it’s only 1mb bigger.
>Our internet connection is fine.
> 
>Thanks,
>Dave
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