Re: [cobalt-users] raq3i FTP hangs

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:02 AM 2/18/00 -0900, you wrote:

> QUESTION 1
>
> On my RAQ3,
>
> telnet- fast login
> http- fast connect
> ftp- slow as #((#*(@
>
> it hangs at user and password
>
> My co-lo says my DNS settings "are fine" There was a prob when i setup my
> raq with them that they messed up the dns servers. That was supposadly fixed
> because i can telnet and http normally now. but FTP is very slow.

It's probably not a DNS problem; if it were, telnet would most likely be 
slow to connect, too.  And it would hang BEFORE the connect, not at user 
and password.

However, don't take your ISP's word that DNS is fine.  It's not the DNS on 
YOUR RaQ3 that slows down connections, it's the REVERSE DNS on the machine 
you're using to connect FROM.

Do:

$ nslookup 00.11.22.33

(where "00.11.22.33" is the number FROM which you're trying to 
connect).  If there's no reverse DNS for this number, that must be fixed.

The easy way to fix it is to add an appropriate line to your /etc/hosts 
file (or create one if you don't have one).  The format is:

00.11.22.33<tab>hostname.domainname.ext

where the "00.11.22.33" must be the IP# from which you're trying to 
connect, the <tab> is hopefully self-explanatory <smile>, and 
hostname.domainname.ext can be just about anything you want, as long as 
it's in a standard format.

Of course if you're using a dialup connection and there's no reverse DNS 
you're in a bit of a bind, because the IP# changes every time you dial 
in.  If such is the case try to talk your ISP into setting up reverse DNS 
for their dialup lines, or contact me offlist for other options.

It's possibly a DNS problem even though login appears to be fast.  HTTP 
connections don't care about reverse DNS, so shouldn't matter.

> QUESTION 2
>
> When trying to install the RAQ3e  OS 2.0 package i get
>
> RaQ3-Update-OS-1.0.pkg failed md5sum check
>
> and the install cancels

Sounds like you've got a bad copy.  Get another.

Jeff

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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>