From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 25 11:45:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8256537B6B4 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from bonsai.knology.net (user-24-214-88-8.knology.net [24.214.88.8]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0PJito14737; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:44:55 -0600 (CST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bonsai.knology.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0PJipo21744; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:44:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:44:51 -0600 From: Steve Price To: Joe Guetler Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp slow to connect Message-ID: <20010125134451.V18587@bonsai.knology.net> References: <20010124221453.C94889@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124205641.A47702@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010124225931.D94889@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124211416.A48018@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010124233343.A95605@bonsai.knology.net> <20010124234303.B95605@bonsai.knology.net> <3A707F45.B5F9AF73@axiomadvertising.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A707F45.B5F9AF73@axiomadvertising.com>; from joe@axiomadvertising.com on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0600, Joe Guetler wrote: > > Now I could be waaaaay off on this, but could it be that the box you > are trying to run the ftp server on is pointing to a bad dns server with > bad or no reverse-lookup tables? I'd have to say that you were spot on. :) I just noticed that the box in question which is running a caching-only named wasn't using the primary DNS server for the domain that it is in as its first choice to forward requests to. I moved it to the first one in the list and voila connections times are down around a couple of seconds. Thanks for the suggestion. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message