From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 14 10:56: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D50E37B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 10:55:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davep@afterswish.com) Received: from duron700.afterswish.com (203-79-83-91.cable.paradise.net.nz [203.79.83.91]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f2EIhNU34859; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:43:23 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.1.20010315073404.02175170@pop3.paradise.net.nz> X-Sender: dpreece@pop3.paradise.net.nz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 07:43:29 +1300 To: "Faisal Gillani" From: David Preece Subject: Re: ftpd very very slow Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <009401c0ad04$744187e0$04036b83@terminal4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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