Re: [cobalt-users] Long wait time for ftp and telnet banners

[Nic Rodgers <nic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The IP address you are connecting from probably fails to resolve. When the
connection is made, the system tries to resolve your IP into the hostname
and waits until it receives a timeout from each of it's DNS servers before
granting the session. If you can't get your ISP to setup reverse DNS for
your IP then simply add your IP address to /etc/hosts on the RAQ and call it
something. I have our static dialup IP address listed as 'office' in
/etc/hosts and now it connects instantly.

Web access is unaffected as Apache either isn't trying to lookup the IP or
is configured to try only once so as to be as as responsive as possible.

Nic.

> I have a raq 3i, which takes a long time for ftp and
> telnet sessions to connect.
> 
> Sometimes the telnet/ftp clients are disconnecting
> before the banners come up.
> 
> Once they come up every thing is quite zippy.
> 
> I notice the same phenomenon with the Administrative
> scripts. They seem to take an inordinate amount of
> time to process.
> 
> The box has 32mb of ram, and that may be the culprit.
> But it seems odd even if there is a paging problem.
> 
> Regular web pages seem to work just fine, even cgi
> scripts that I have installed seem to perform just fine.