From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 20:20: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B3837B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0Q4N7u69439; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:23:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Steve Price Cc: Joe Guetler , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp slow to connect Message-ID: <20010125202306.A69390@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <20010124221453.C94889@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124205641.A47702@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010124225931.D94889@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124211416.A48018@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010124233343.A95605@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124234303.B95605@bonsai.knology.net> <3A707F45.B5F9AF73@axiomadvertising.com> <20010125134451.V18587@bonsai.knology.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010125134451.V18587@bonsai.knology.net>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:44:51PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:44:51PM -0600, Steve Price wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0600, Joe Guetler wrote: > >=20 > > Now I could be waaaaay off on this, but could it be that the box you > > are trying to run the ftp server on is pointing to a bad dns server with > > bad or no reverse-lookup tables? >=20 > I'd have to say that you were spot on. :) I just noticed that > the box in question which is running a caching-only named wasn't > using the primary DNS server for the domain that it is in as its > first choice to forward requests to. I moved it to the first one > in the list and voila connections times are down around a couple > of seconds. Thanks for the suggestion. Hehe. Since this problem comes up approximately every 10 seconds on the lists, perhaps you could write up a FAQ entry on the topic? Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6cPuqWry0BWjoQKURAl1bAJ0UR08yZFBzZ7qdBJ6U7XBI6fFAcACgqrQL lN0hl5HU/Km6p/O16oCdfUM= =RG5Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message