From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 17:10:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F18537B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f6K0A5410570; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:10:05 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:10:05 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028 Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Question on FTP Message-ID: <20010720121005.A10414@itouchnz.itouch> References: <796456A0F96AD511A0AC009027B0F7412D0767@IL27EXM08.cig.mot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <796456A0F96AD511A0AC009027B0F7412D0767@IL27EXM08.cig.mot.com>; from venkatesh.pandurangi@motorola.com on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:51:56PM -0500 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 On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:51:56PM -0500, Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028 wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to FreeBSD. I have installed FreeBSD 4.2 on two i386 PCs. These two > PCs are connect to each other in a local network using CISCO routers. I am > trying to run 'ftp' command from one FreeBSD PC to another FreeBSD PC. It > takes very very long time to get to the FTP prompt. After the ftp command, > it immediately displays 'connected to 77.1.63.1' (Ip address of PC2) and > takes long time to get to the FTP prompt. The ftp server box is attempting a reverse DNS lookup; which times out after a minute. Put in the appropriate entries in the DNS for 77.1.63.1, and everything will work a lot faster. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message