[techtalk] Debian/proftpd problems... AGAIN

Kath ranger at optonline.net
Tue Aug 15 22:22:35 EST 2000


Thats what I was thinking!  Now I'm looking at the proftpd.conf file and I
see nothing for DNS lookups.  Anyone know the proftp website offhand?

- Kathleen



----- Original Message -----
From: <kelly at poverty.bloomington.in.us>
To: "Kath" <ranger at optonline.net>
Cc: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 10:22 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] Debian/proftpd problems... AGAIN


> 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
>






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