From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 20:00:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E4D916A421 for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:00:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCF443D48 for ; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:00:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j4VK0YtZ042557; Tue, 31 May 2005 15:00:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:00:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Vizion Message-ID: <20050531200034.GB90259@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200505310818.45961.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <200505311200.06206.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> <4464wzb3ii.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <200505311245.05832.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505311245.05832.vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp server frustrating X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:00:36 -0000 In the last episode (May 31), Vizion said: > On Tuesday 31 May 2005 12:26, the author Lowell Gilbert contributed to the dialogue on- Re: ftp server frustrating: > >Vizion writes: > >> I still cant understand why the cut off is set so short!! > > > >Well, for one thing, it *isn't* as short as you were claiming; my > >testing right now indicates that it's (at least) over a minute. > > My testing here does conflicts with yours. there seems to be some > network delays for freebsd.. I do not know when the timing starts -- > > I get a message from the server that cuts me off when I am tryiong to > log in saying I did not login within 15 seconds. Here is an example > output from ftp.freebsd.org when logging in: ftp.freebsd.org is actually 2 machines; the one at 62.243.72.50 (ftp.beastie.tdk.net) seems to have the 15 second timeout. The one at 204.152.184.73 (freebsd.isc.org) doesn't. > I am really asking why does it have to be so short - what is the > reason? Try sending an email to the address listed in the welcome message sent before you log into ftp.beastie.tdk.net: 220-Contact: beastie tdk.net -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com