Re: Ftp problem

[Harald Geiger <Harald.Geiger@web.de>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:08:03PM +0100, 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.

Try disabling reverse DNS lookup and ident lookup in the proftp
config:

 UseReverseDNS   off
 IdentLookups    off

Harald