[lug] WU-FTP?

[John Karns]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Ferdinand Schmid said:

> "Scott A. Herod" wrote:
> > Is it perhaps trying to do authentication of the client machine?
> > I suppose that might include a reverse DNS lookup.  I had problems
> > at home between my two machines in which it would take minutes for
> > the connection to go through.  I finally decided it was caused by
> > a reverse lookup on attempt by the server when I had no dns server
> > available.

> If this is the case then include all machines in each /etc/hosts file.
> Both machines should have their ftp partner listed in /etc/hosts in
> addition to themselves in the absence of DNS.
>
> Ferdinand

I checked my hosts files and found that some were missing the self
reference record (IP of the host machine itself).  Adding this solved a
long standing annoyance I've had in waiting for the DNS time-out while
connecting to one of my machines in particular.  Thanx.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net