From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 8 12:52:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA08725 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clifford.inch.com (omar@clifford.inch.com [207.240.140.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08713 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from omar@localhost) by clifford.inch.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06021; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:50:24 -0400 Message-ID: <19970808155023.33580@clifford.inch.com> Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:50:23 -0400 From: Omar Thameen To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ftpd/wu-ftpd: login prompt delay Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.65 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone have any ideas on this? It didn't happen with the 2.1.7 ftpd. Please don't make me resort to wu-ftpd, which returns a login prompt right away. Omar -----Forwarded message from Omar Thameen ----- We're trying to use the stock ftpd on 2.2 machines running as webservers. Hence, each server has a number of IPs aliased. The problem is, on these 2.2 machines, ftpd takes a long time to return a login prompt, preventing some users from connecting because their software has too short of a timeout. I get the "Connected to domain.com" message immediately, but the login prompt takes a good 20-30 seconds more. It's not a nameservice issue, because if I install the wu-ftpd port (which I'm trying to move away from since ftpd seems to be developing nicely), it returns the login prompt right away. One thing I have found is that on machines that have only one IP, the login prompt returns quickly. It's these webservers with a number of IP aliases that seems to be the problem. Any ideas, advice, or commiseration? Omar -----End of forwarded message-----