ftp slow w/ proftpd# Samba fast

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 20:31 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Excalibur Xcalibur wrote:
> > Even after this:
> > 
> > UseReverseDNS off
> > IdentLookups off
> > 
> > 
> > in /etc/proftpd.conf
> > 
> > it still sucks! I've never seen such a sluggish ftp server.
> Perhaps you would like to try vsftpd. I have not had such problems with it.

If you're starting it via xinetd, make sure you turn off those options
in the xinetd.d config as well (specifically, make sure you specify
"log_on_success -= HOST USERID" to prevent the same lookups you're
trying to prevent in your proftpd.conf file).

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