From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 19 21:31: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cpt-proxy1.mweb.co.za (cpt-proxy1.mweb.co.za [196.2.48.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C35137B405 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from psyv@root.org.za) Received: from pta-dial-196-31-186-240.mweb.co.za ([196.31.186.240]) by cpt-proxy1.mweb.co.za (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0GGR00KID8M25K@cpt-proxy1.mweb.co.za> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 06:32:59 +0200 (GMT-2) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 06:32:11 +0200 (SAST) From: The Psychotic Viper Subject: Re: Question on FTP In-reply-to: <796456A0F96AD511A0AC009027B0F7412D0767@IL27EXM08.cig.mot.com> X-Sender: psyv@lucifer.fuzion.za.org To: Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028 Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi, On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Pandurangi Venkatesh-AVP028 wrote: > 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. try adding an entry for the connecting box into /etc/hosts in the following syntax (follow the example and change for your taste) 77.1.63.? freebsd2.network.domain.com freebsd2 PsyV To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message