I recently had to reinstall my package so that I get fresh apache 2.2.22, php 5.4.3 and mysql 5.5.24.
One big change that has happened is the page creation time. I dug up a bit and found out that calling mysqli_connect takes up to 2 seconds.
So, it still works, so my users are well reconfigured, and the whole system gets up - only this part makes everything unusable.
Does anyone know where this latency comes from?
EDIT: There seems to be a problem with dns, as you suggested. Now, if I go to 127.0.0.1, I have access denied. I keep digging
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