[squid-users] 15 minutes to access www.cnn.com

As of about 2 weeks ago, access to www.cnn.com takes about 15 minutes. Re-building the squid cache has not helped. Browsers downloads the page nicely when proxy is bypassed.

We are running RedHat 7.2 and Squid Cache Version 2.5.STABLE1.

Any help is much appreciated.

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This is how the conversation goes:
1055231747.595   1540 10.2.3.242 TCP_MISS/200 57554 GET http://www.cnn.com/ - DIRECT/64.236.24.28 text/html
1055231747.822    418 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/304 243 GET http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/ssi/css/1.0/main.css - DIRECT/64.236.24.139 text/css
1055231748.236    414 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/304 258 GET http://i.cnn.net/cnn/.element/ssi/js/1.0/main.js - DIRECT/64.236.16.136 application/x-javascript
1055231748.753    516 10.2.3.242 TCP_MISS/404 305 POST http://activex.microsoft.com/objects/ocget.dll - DIRECT/207.46.196.108 text/html
1055231749.641   1365 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/200 6262 GET http://ar.atwola.com/file/adsWrapper.js - DIRECT/152.163.208.185 application/x-javascript
At this point the browser waits about 15 minutes and then the page appears. The following lines are logged while page appears:
1055232055.685 306932 10.2.3.242 TCP_MISS/503 1326 POST http://codecs.microsoft.com/isapi/ocget.dll - DIRECT/207.46.196.120 text/html
1055232056.658    926 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/200 5788 GET http://ar.atwola.com/file/adsPopup2.js - DIRECT/152.163.208.249 application/x-javascript
1055232057.047    366 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/304 244 GET http://i.cnn.net/cnn/images/1.gif - DIRECT/64.236.16.137 image/gif
1055232057.165    367 10.2.3.242 TCP_MISS/200 662 GET http://ar.atwola.com/html/93103300/817995486/aol? - DIRECT/205.188.165.57 text/html
1055232057.407    675 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/304 264 GET http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.gif - DIRECT/64.236.46.63 image/gif
1055232057.417    587 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/304 264 GET http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.0/searchbar/bar.search.gif - DIRECT/64.236.46.15 image/gif
1055232057.419    371 10.2.3.242 TCP_CLIENT_REFRESH_MISS/304 264 GET http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.0/searchbar/bar.top.bevel.gif - DIRECT/64.236.46.15 image/gif
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