FTP connection take a long time.

[Irving Lopez]

Hi pepople,

Info:
Kernel 2.2.19
wu-ftp 2.6.1

When try to connect to my ftp server the connection take a long long take to be established.

All comments welcome

Thanks.

[Bernie Vande Griend]

The first thing that comes to mind is a name resolution problem.

Usually ftp and telnet try to do a reverse lookup on the IP address of the client that is trying to connect. If it can't resolve it, then the connection usually takes a long time.

To rule this out, put a hostname and IP address of the client in your ftp's server /etc/hosts file and make sure /etc/nsswitch.conf has files listed in the hosts line.

[Irving Lopez]

All this settings are done, and still not working.

[Jeffrey S. Sims]

I just recently had this same problem. Try deleting the lines in /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd that read

log_on_success += DURATION USERID
log_on_failure += USERID

That worked for me. Hope it helps

[Irving Lopez]

I am using rh 6.2 and xinetd is used in rh 7.

[John Love_3]

Irving,
do you have a hosts entry in your PC for the FTP server? This won't solve the problem for everyone, but just a step to gather information.
If you use WindowsNT or win2k, the hosts file is in C:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc
Try this and then try pining the ftp server by name and then from the ftp server, ping your pc by name and see if it resolves.
We'll go from there.