From owner-freebsd-net Thu Sep 23 11:10:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.mlnet.net (mailhost.mlnet.net [193.116.163.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94A3314F05 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from M@mlnet.net) Received: (from postie@localhost) by mailhost.mlnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13844; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:05:33 GMT Received: from ip57.medsoft.org(193.116.163.57) by mailhost.mlnet.net via smap (V1.3.ML.3) id sma013842; Thu Sep 23 18:05:06 1999 Received: (from postie@localhost) by newgate.home.ml-associates.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18581; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:03:48 GMT Message-Id: <199909231803.SAA18581@newgate.home.ml-associates.co.uk> Received: from oban(192.168.191.2) by newgate.home.ml-associates.co.uk via smap (V1.3.ML.3) id sma018579; Thu Sep 23 18:03:39 1999 X-Sender: msmith!home.ml-associates.co.uk@192.168.191.10 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:08:34 +0000 To: "Derek Jewett" , From: Matthew Smithshaw Subject: Re: FTP authentication - Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If this is pre-authentication, ie between 'connected' and the login/username prompt, then it could be a reverse DNS lookup problem rather than an authentication problem. Regards -M At 09:49 23/09/1999 -0700, Derek Jewett wrote: >Sorry if this is duplicate, I sent the last message out formatted.. sorry > >Running 3.1-R I am still getting a strange dilema every once in a while... >Happened last night; When a user hits my FBSD box to do an ftp session the >machine takes like some three or four minutes to authenticate the user.. The >same thing happens when you try to do a telnet session as well.. and then >after some time passes the problem goes away and it operates as normal. This >box is mission critical as daily and nightly file transfers happen on a >normal basis.. Anyone got any ideas as to what may be causing these mystry >slow downs > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > -- Matthew Smithshaw | ML Associates M@UK.COM or M@mlnet.net | P O Box 16076 tel:+44-141-951-2229 | Glasgow Scotland fax:+44-141-951-8877 | G11 7TL To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message