On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Alan Mead wrote:
> At 09:33 AM 10/31/00 , Frank Carreiro wrote:
> >Is there a reason when I FTP from a Windwoes box to my Linux FTP server
> >that it takes up to two minutes before prompted for a login name/password?
>
> This is a classic symptom of something timing-out like a reverse DNS lookup
> or a identd request. Solutions include: fixing the offending service
> (e.g., sort out the DNS/ident/whatever issues) and not requesting this info
> (in ftpd).
>
I've got an RH6.2 box at home. I was having problems with a slow SSH,
so I just added my local machines to the /etc/hosts file. That solved
THAT problem! You shouldn't have that problem with any machine which
is known by DNS.
John
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