From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 21:54:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C7B37B423 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:54:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-770.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.70]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id XAA28406; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:54:26 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Paetzel To: "Doug Wilson" , Subject: Re: would like snappy ftp & telnet service, any thoughts? Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:55:03 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042223550302.00281@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 22 April 2001 23:42, Doug Wilson wrote: > Hi list! > > I have noticed that when I ftp or telnet to my machine, it takes 4-Ever! > It takes like a minute just to ask for login! BTW, I access the machine in > question, via a computer sitting one switch-port away! > > I would like it to snap to attention. Any tweaks in mind to make it > respond? > > Thanks! > > Doug > Fix your DNS so that reverse lookups are happening properly. The wait that you are encountering is becuase ftp and telnet are trying to do reverse lookups on the machine that you are logging in from, and it has to time out before the logout will proceed. Josh > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message