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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:23:06 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Joe Guetler <joe@axiomadvertising.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ftp slow to connect
Message-ID:  <20010125202306.A69390@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010125134451.V18587@bonsai.knology.net>; from sprice@hiwaay.net on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:44:51PM -0600
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> <20010125134451.V18587@bonsai.knology.net>

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:44:51PM -0600, Steve Price wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0600, Joe Guetler wrote:
> >=20
> >     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?
>=20
> 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.

Hehe. Since this problem comes up approximately every 10 seconds on
the lists, perhaps you could write up a FAQ entry on the topic?

Kris

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