From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 19 8:50:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from btconnex.net (mailtest.btconnex.net [209.47.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2630037B416 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:50:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@beanfield.com) Received: (qmail 84031 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2001 15:46:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beanfield.com) (192.168.66.18) by mailtest.btconnex.net with SMTP; 19 Jun 2001 15:46:49 -0000 Message-ID: <3B2F74D7.C057B32F@beanfield.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:50:47 -0400 From: Dan Armstrong X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Urgent help with Reverse Lookups and FTPD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We are a small ISP, and just turned up a new webserver running Free4.3 Most of our customers live on private (192.168) addresses and I am getting slaughtered with phone calls that they cannot ftp into their sites, and it is because their ftp programs don't necessarily wait for Free's ftpd to timeout doing the reverse lookup, for an address that of course does not have any reverse information for it. If I add their IP to the /etc/hosts BOOM they get in instantly. These thousands of addresses are all dynamically assigned, so the hosts file fix is not possible on this scale. Is there a way I can get it to stop? HELP! Dan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message