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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:14:53 -0600
From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: ftp slow to connect
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I know the answer to this is probably in the mail archives
somewhere, but for some reason www.freebsd.org appears to
down or unreachable from here.

Anyway I've been seeing problems with ftp being slow to
connect.  I connect and after typing in the username and
password it seems to stall sometimes for 30 seconds or
more before I get the '230 User foo logged in.' line.  I
seem to remember someone saying that it had to do with
reverse DNS lookups and waiting for them to timeout, but
I don't remember the solution.

I'm running ftpd from inetd.conf with 'ftpd -lR' if that
matters.  When I disable it in inetd, HUP inetd, and try
to start ftpd with 'ftpd -lRD' I see the following in
/var/log/messages.

Jan 24 22:11:08 db ftpd[69699]: control socket: Protocol not supported

Any ideas?  Thanks.

-steve


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