At 01:09 PM 1/8/2004, Michael Iedema wrote:
>Mine worked flawlessly.
>I used smartFTP with the following output.  There was a rather long pause 
>in getting the listing and its presence is noted in the message log.

That frequently is the result of Domain Name Service (DNS) being 
misconfigured.  The FTP server does a reverse lookup on the incoming IP 
address so that it can make a pretty log entry.  Eventually it times out 
the lookup and continues.  I think the FreeBSD default timeout is 10 
seconds.  If you see delays connecting to a server that are in multiples of 
10 seconds, it is a good bet that the server doesn't have you in its 
/etc/hosts table =and= doesn't have an accessible name server configured.


          -crl
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