Are any other members noticing an issue with CDNLayer? Any additional info (such as times, location, traceroutes, etc) would be helpful. The images are properly served with a Last-Modified header, so should be cached by your browser.

--jeremy

jeremy, for the moment I'm turning off all javascript. When I blocked LQ (in addition to the google ones), things loosened up considerably (F/F 3 on Mepis 8 and XP).
Will test this at home later - different ISP.

me@ubuntu:~$ nslookup http.cdnlayer.com
Server: 10.1.1.1
Address: 10.1.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
http.cdnlayer.com canonical name = softlayer.http.internapcdn.net.
softlayer.http.internapcdn.net canonical name = http.syd002.internap.com.
http.syd002.internap.com canonical name = cdce.syd002.internap.com.
Name: cdce.syd002.internap.com
Address: 202.58.141.130

me@ubuntu:~$ ping -c 4 http.cdnlayer.com
...
--- cdce.syd002.internap.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3015ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 191.381/201.548/230.646/16.813 ms

Traceroute gets to the ISP and shows time-outs - happens at work too.

Doesn't seem to be time-of-day related (remembering I'm in Aus).

It's correctly directing you to a local cache then (Sydney, AU) and the response times look reasonable as well. Are you sure there are no FF plugins/extensions that are causing an issue?

--jeremy

This seems to be a problem of (some) gifs "expiring", and needing to be refreshed. 10-15 minutes maybe. When I block (at the firewall) cdnlayer, I see the page data, but the status line shows "Transferring data from www.linuxquestions.org and the busy indicator runs. Minutes later I get a "Connecting to http.cdnlayer.com" status. Stays like that till I interrupt it.
Seeing this on distros based on Debian repos.
On Archlinux using F/F 3.0.4 I don't see this "expiring" of any gifs - blocking at the firewall has no obvious effect.

It gets weirder - on the problem systems I am still seeing hits against linuxquestions.cachefly.net (frown.gif and tongue.gif for example). This cannot be residual data - this system is a new install done a week ago on a newly formatted partition; in addition I flushed cache, and all cookies containing "lq" or "linuxquestion".

Will keep looking.

Cancel that comment re Arch - I do see expiring of the gifs. On Epiphany as well, although the "lockout" effect is much less.

Maybe I'll just have to live with it.

Can you post the URL that you are still seeing references to cachefly in? Thanks.

--jeremy

Sorry mate, took a while to find one - had real work to do ... ;) Try this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...et-wtf-687435/
First page shows both eek.gif and wink.gif as cachefly (after clearing cache)

You can close this incident if you like, I've resigned myself to having to live with the issue.

Cheers ...

Looks like one of the memcached servers still had the old image info cached. This should be clearing itself up now. I'll keep the incident open, pending further info/feedback. Thanks again.

--jeremy