From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 5:51:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E71D37B973 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 05:51:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-209-140.netcologne.de [194.8.209.140]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22951; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:51:46 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e78CpfM65376; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:51:41 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:51:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Willie Wallace/IT/ATL/SONE Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FTP Connection timeout ??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Willie Wallace/IT/ATL/SONE wrote: > First, let me say thanks for your reply. When FTP timeout, I also > have a problem with telnet. However, after some time both will > start working again, without any changes being made to the system. > I hope this help shed some additional light on the problem. This smells like a DNS problem. I'd check that first. If you notice a general network problem, then next thing I might check are the network cables and nics. Perhaps ping is showing some packet loss? -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message