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From: Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: FTP connections hanging
To: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>,
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It might be a reverse DNS problem. If those users are
coming from IPs that don't have a reverse set up for
them, FTP can hang while doing the lookup. If you were
trying to replicate it from somewhere with reverse set
up, it would all appear normal.

--Tim

--- "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> wrote:
> I have a moderately-heavily loaded web server
> running RELENG_4_5.
> MAXUSERS in the kernel is set to 0.
> 
> Some users are reporting problems with FTP
> connections slowing down,
> hanging, and timing out.  The users are on different
> ISPs.
> 
> I haven't been able to reproduce the problem.  Does
> anyone have any hints
> on things I can do to find out where this problem
> is?
> 
> --Wade
> 
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