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.ie sites slow to load behind corporate firewall

phunkadelic · 2021-02-05 09:25:31

Anyone seeing slow load times on .ie sites the past few days? I am seeing it behind our corporate firewall. Asked a former colleague to check and his new company is affected too. We use a fortigate, he is on a checkpoint. The sites are fine on home internet connection or mobile internet. If I try debugging on chrome, it…

05-02-2021 09:25AM

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Anyone seeing slow load times on .ie sites the past few days? I am seeing it behind our corporate firewall. Asked a former colleague to check and his new company is affected too. We use a fortigate, he is on a checkpoint.
The sites are fine on home internet connection or mobile internet.

If I try debugging on chrome, it shows errors accessing fonts.googleapis.com. All the sites seem to have that in common, they all give timeout errors accessing fonts.googleapis.com.
GET https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Josefin+Sans:400,700 net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

Example sites affected:
rte.ie
thejournal.ie
boards.ie

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#2 06-02-2021 12:43AM

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Fortigate DNS servers always have a high response time.
And depending on the security services on the unit, all traffic could be routed over these servers, hence the delay.

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