FTP slow initial connection

[Christopher Murtagh]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Drew Lane wrote:
>I read that the FTP server is doing a reverse lookup and it's timing out
>because it can't find the client.  Sound right?

 Sounds like this could be the problem. To turn off reverse lookups, put 
these two lines in /etc/proftpd.conf:

UseReverseDNS off
IdentLookups off

 Then sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

 This should speed up your connections quite considerably.

Cheers,

Chris

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