Re: Ftp problem

[Patrick Morris <pmorris@wilshire.com>]

Usually, that's a sign that reverse name lookups are failing.  Make sure
your FTP server can do reverse lookups on the connecting hosts, and the
delay should go away.

Paulo Graça Rodrigues wrote:

> Recently I've posted a ftp problem. At that time I didn't want to use
> proftpd on my sparc station 5 running Debian Linux kernel 2.0.35. But
> I think I have to use proftpd.My problem with proftpd is that I can
> ftp localhost but when I ftp from another machine I connect but it
> takes toooooooooo long to get the user and password prompt (more than
> 5 minutes...).After getting my user/password prompt, everything works
> correctly and very fast.I'm running proftpd standalone.Doing a ps auxw
> shows one daemon for every established
> connection. #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------My
> proftpd.conf file is too simple (I've tried
> everything...): ServerType
> standaloneDeferWelcome                    on
> DefaultServer                   on
> ExtendedLog
> /var/log/proftpd.logPort                            21
> Umask                           022User
> root
> Group
> root#---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I getting these lines in /var/log/proftpd.log: 194.65.153.108 UNKNOWN
> root [10/Sep/2001:17:04:33 +0100] "USER pgr" 331 -
> 194.65.153.108 UNKNOWN pgr [10/Sep/2001:17:04:36 +0100] "PASS
> (hidden)" 230 -
> 194.65.153.108 UNKNOWN pgr [10/Sep/2001:17:04:36 +0100] "SYST " 215 -
> 194.65.153.108 UNKNOWN pgr [10/Sep/2001:17:04:37 +0100] "PORT
> 194,65,153,108,90,
> 130" 200 -
> 194.65.153.108 UNKNOWN pgr [10/Sep/2001:17:04:37 +0100] "LIST " 226
> 606 I'm on an invalid network (10.0.0.0) and I'm doing NAT. My source
> IP address is 194.65.153.108, taken from NAT machine.Telnet woks
> fine!! Can anyone help
> me?  ----------------------------------------------
> Paulo Graça Rodrigues
> System & Network Administrator
> Ministério da Economia - Direcção do Algarve Email:
> pgr@drealg.min-economia.pt
> Homepage: http://www.angelfire.com/ms/tomar/ Telefone (Phone): +351
> 289 896 614
> Fax: +351 289 896 690
> ----------------------------------------------


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