[techtalk] Debian/proftpd problems... AGAIN

[kelly at poverty.bloomington.in.us]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:51:21 -0400, "Kath" <ranger at optonline.net> said:

>Very interesting.  I increased the timeout delay and was able to
>login to the ftp in Windows, but it was quite slow.  A refresh of a
>directory could take upwards of 30 seconds and this is across a 100
>Mbps LAN with no traffic on it.

The FTP daemon may be trying to reverse-lookup the hostname of the
connecting system, for logging purposes. 

Kelly