Ok, I got what seems to be the correct answer:
http://superuser.com/a/558715/53951
In a nutshell, the misconfiguration of my ISP's DNS results in reverse
DNS queries of my IP address timing out.
So now my questions are:
- can anyone confirm that hackage indeed attempts to do reverse DNS
lookup on the client's IP address?
- is it really necessary?
I'll try to convince my ISP to fix their DNS, but I'm not sure I'll
succeed, and there may be other people affected by this.
Roman
* Roman Cheplyaka
I have this weird problem accessing hackage, when the first response gets delayed by 30 seconds: http://superuser.com/q/557271/53951
Does anyone else experience it? (No need to reply with "works for me" — I know that it works for most people.)
Any clues about what can be the problem?
Roman