<span style="font-family: georgia;">Dear Phil,</span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Thanks for the reply.</span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><br style="font-family: georgia;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">Mine:</span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">;; Query time: 4138 msec</span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><br style="font-family: georgia;">
<span style="font-family: georgia;">OK It takes 4.138 secs. :( The logins seem to be fast. It's only when the users start to transfer files, then it takes forever. <br><br>Is there a way to make proftpd bypass the checks?
<br style="font-family: georgia;"></span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">-- </span><br style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Excalibur</span><br><br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Phil Meyer</b> <<a href="mailto:pmeyer@themeyerfarm.com">pmeyer@themeyerfarm.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> I'm using proftpd as server on my fedora box and it's damn slow.<br>> Users take forever to download/upload things on the server. But when I<br>> share my folder as a Samba share, it's almost instantaneous
<br>> downloads/uploads for users. Any clues to make my FTP blazing fast?<br>> Could SELINUX be one of the problems?<br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Excalibur<br><br>proftp can be (is by default?) configured to verify a valid IP before
<br>allowing a log in.<br><br>If your reverse DNS is slow, then ftp logins and ssh connections can<br>take up to two minutes or so.<br><br>Microsoft based protocols don't do much IP based security validation,<br>based upon the OLD SMB protocols (ripped off from DEC and ISO standards).
<br><br>Check your reverse DNS response times -- I bet they are whack.<br><br>You can use the host utility to test RDNS queries easily, or dig.<br><br>$ host <a href="http://74.220.202.11">74.220.202.11</a><br>11.202.220.74.in-addr.arpa
domain name pointer <a href="http://host11.hostmonster.com">host11.hostmonster.com</a>.<br><br>$ dig <a href="http://esourcehome.com">esourcehome.com</a><br><br>; <<>> DiG 9.4.1 <<>> <a href="http://esourcehome.com">
esourcehome.com</a><br>;; global options: printcmd<br>;; Got answer:<br>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9058<br>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0<br><br>
;; QUESTION SECTION:<br>;esourcehome.com. IN A<br><br>;; ANSWER SECTION:<br><a href="http://esourcehome.com">esourcehome.com</a>. 4439 IN A <a href="http://74.220.202.11">74.220.202.11
</a><br><br>;; Query time: 3 msec<br>;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(<a href="http://192.168.1.1">192.168.1.1</a>)<br>;; WHEN: Wed Jul 25 17:32:44 2007<br>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 49<br><br>If these queries take more than a second or so, your are having DNS issues.
<br><br>Good Luck!<br><br>--<br>fedora-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a><br>To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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