From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 11:50:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from karon.dynas.se (karon.dynas.se [192.71.43.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D887B37B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:50:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 69200 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2001 19:50:20 -0000 Received: from spirit.sto.dynas.se (HELO spirit.dynas.se) (172.16.1.10) by 172.16.1.1 with SMTP; 14 Feb 2001 19:50:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 4574 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2001 19:50:18 -0000 Received: from explorer.rsa.com (10.81.217.59) by spirit.dynas.se with SMTP; 14 Feb 2001 19:50:18 -0000 Received: (from mikko@localhost) by explorer.rsa.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1EJo9B28169; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:50:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mikko) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:50:09 -0800 (PST) From: Mikko Tyolajarvi Message-Id: <200102141950.f1EJo9B28169@explorer.rsa.com> To: marky@crestaudio.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Markftp slow to connect - (again) Newsgroups: local.freebsd.questions References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In local.freebsd.questions you write: >Ok. I've seen this exact problem on this list >before (I think from Steve Price), but I think >that I can characterize it a little bit further. >Running ftpd from inetd, it takes about 6-7 >minutes to get a login prompt. *Also*, if I remove >ftpd from inetd and try to run it from the command >line with /usr/libexec/ftpd -D4, it takes 6-7 >minutes to become a daemon. During this time, >top says that the state of ftpd is 'kqread'. I Most likely it is doing DNS lookups (the resolver library uses kqueue()), and your DNS is not correctly configured. Make sure you can resolve the name of your host, as well as all its IP-addresses. $.02, /Mikko -- Mikko Työläjärvi_______________________________________mikko@rsasecurity.com RSA Security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message