Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:43:29 +1300 From: David Preece <davep@afterswish.com> To: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftpd very very slow Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20010315073404.02175170@pop3.paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <009401c0ad04$744187e0$04036b83@terminal4>
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At 20:00 14/03/2001 -0800, you wrote: >when i ftp to my freebsd server it takes a long long time to connect & >authenticate why ? There are a whole collection of similar problems with authentication and they're all (usually) caused by a lack of reverse DNS. I.e. your bsd server has an address for a DNS server (probably your isp), so when you try to connect it wants to reverse DNS the client IP into a client name. It asks the ISP to do that, but stragely the ISP cannot and therefore the whole thing takes a while to timeout. Easiest way to solve this: Connect to the server from a machine with a static IP and add the static ip to /etc/hosts. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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