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Date:      Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:59:58 -0700
From:      lewwid <lewwid@telusplanet.net>
To:        "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: FTP connections hanging
Message-ID:  <2Y4YQKUSSPIIF6ZTQHDEAC8IEOJYVFC.3c87d4ce@Jeff>
In-Reply-To: <20020307204842.96359.qmail@web11706.mail.yahoo.com>

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Is there a way to disable the reverse lookup?  I notice this too when I'm on my cable connection.
For my connection, I put my ip in /etc/hosts and it runs amazingly fast, however what's the solution
for dynamic ips.

Thanks

3/7/2002 1:48:42 PM, Tim Erlin <tperlin@yahoo.com> wrote:

>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
>> 
>> -- 
>> The loss of the public domain hurts everyone but the
>> big guys
>>
>http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20020305_sprigman.html
>> 
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