Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:09:44 -0600 From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com> To: <beauford.2002@rogers.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FTP and SSH question? Message-ID: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGIECAEBAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com> In-Reply-To: <000001c1c02d$4f6ba300$6401a8c0@pr.phub.net.cable.rogers.com>
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I've had the same problem on occasion too. FTP and SSH works fine for a couple of weeks and then all of the sudden it times out. Definitely a DNS/reverse lookup issue. To fix the problem: Just add your remote machine's address/IP to the server's /etc/hosts file. Regards, - Scott > Hi, > > For some unknown reason it is now taking up to 5 minutes to > log into my > FreeBSD box using SSH or FTP. It was working fine, and then I changed > the syslog.conf file to redirect some screen output to a file > and added > firewall_quiet="YES" to my /etc/rc.conf file. Whether this is the > problem I have no idea, but that's all that was changed. I > changed these > files back to the way they were but it made no difference. I > just tried > FTPing from my work and it just sat there for 10 minutes before I > cancelled it. > > Any ideas. > > Thanks, Beauford > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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