Unexpected Latency in Tinyproxy

I love tinyproxy, it is simple to setup and more than enough for my needs. Recently however I noticed that some clients were experiencing unexpected long delays when doing something as simple as curl google.com. After some sleuthing, I tracked it down to the fact I had

LogLevel Info

in my config. When this is set tinyproxy produces log entries such as

CONNECT   Mar 28 08:46:41 [7023]: Connect (file descriptor 7): [unknown] [123.123.123.123]

the [unknown] is due to tinyproxy attempting and failing to resolve the connecting IP into a hostname. It is this attempt to map IP to hostname that is causing the latencies observed. To resolve this I added offending IP to /etc/hosts

123.123.123.123 some-host-name

with the above entry the latency went away and the log entries now look like

CONNECT   Mar 28 20:39:49 [6879]: Connect (file descriptor 7): some-host-name [123.123.123.123]

Conda and Slow Proxies

The default conda connect timeout is 9.15 seconds (no idea why this is, seems to have been the case from day one). If the proxy is slow, e.g. it is in another country or AWS region, this timeout can be triggered and conda will prematurely close the connection.

To diagnose this issue, attempt 

curl https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64/current_repodata.json

with proxies enabled. If that works then increase the connect timeout as follows

conda config --set remote_connect_timeout_secs 30

conda should now be able to update and install new packages etc.