Re: ftp login prompt appears after a long time

From: 'Masu' Asgharifard (masu@procache.com)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 01:13:06 EST


On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 linux-net@gurubase.com wrote:

>
> I am using Redhat 6.2 and the problem is that the ftp server response time
> is too long. When I ftp to serverA, "Connect to serverA" prints quickly,
> but the login prompt appears after 1 minute.
>
> Telnet's reponse is very fast, however. /etc/host file has include the
> host name of the client pc.
>

Please check that your /etc/resolv.conf contains some line like

order hosts,bind

in it.
This makes the programs look in /etc/hosts (and not /etc/host), then try
to query the DNS server.
 

regards,

Masoud.

+--------------------------+
| Massoud A. Sharabiani |
| masu@procache.com |
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