From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 22:52:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D611037B402; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from bonsai.knology.net (user-24-214-88-8.knology.net [24.214.88.8]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0P6qCo19249; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:52:12 -0600 (CST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bonsai.knology.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0P6qC601807; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:52:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:52:11 -0600 From: Steve Price To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Steve Lewis , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp slow to connect Message-ID: <20010125005211.G95605@bonsai.knology.net> References: <20010125001928.E95605@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124224229.B49206@citusc17.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010124224229.B49206@citusc17.usc.edu>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:42:29PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:42:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:39:54PM -0800, Steve Lewis wrote: > > > Another solution occurs to me: grab a more "robust" ftpd such as wu- > > where you can EXPLICITLY turn off rev-DNS lookups and where it can run > > You must be using a different value of "robust" than I am for wu-ftpd > to be it..perhaps you like remote root exploits :-) Now, now... be nice. :) You are both trying to help and I *very* much appreciate it. I'd really rather use the stock ftpd, but I'll entertain any ideas that helps me get this closer to being resolved. I really don't want to have to listen to my friend suggest again that we put the L-word OS on the ftp server so his clients quit complaining about slow connections. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message