Yes, I believe the system you are tryin to connect to do a reverse lookup for both ftp and ssh, this can casue a hang if no readily resolvable. /****************************************************************************/ / / / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / / / / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / / / /****************************************************************************/ On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, John Albee wrote: >This isnt exactly an answer, but does ftp and ssh attempt a reverse lookup of the systems they are attempting to connect to? > > >Thanks, >John Albee > >On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:01:33 -0700 >"Brian Cluff" wrote: > >> Can you give us a dump of a route -n and an ifconfig >> >> It could be DNS problems, some services hang while they do a lookup on your >> IP. You might want to try putting an entree in the /etc/hosts file for the >> client machines and see if that helps. >> It does sound like you have more going on than that though. So I dont know >> if that will help. >> >> Brian >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> Hi. I have just installed Red Hat 7.0 on a computer with an 800Mhz amd duron >> processor and 128 meg ram. I installed apache and have configured 4 ip >> addresses on 1 NIC. 1 IP has a domain name, www.travelcruise.com associated >> with it and the others don't yet. the other ip addresses are 63.226.30.200, >> 201 and 202. I can reach all of them via http. >> >> The problem is that if I try to FTP in, it takes aprox 3 minutes to connect. >> It makes no difference if I FTP in on the LAN or over the internet. To make >> an ssh connection also takes about as long. >> >> When on this machine i can ping local host and I get no packet loss and fast >> responses, when I ping any of the ip addresses while on that machine i get >> slow responses and about 20% packet loss, also if takes 30-40 seconds before >> the pinging starts. If I ping an address on the internet, I also get slow >> response and about 20% packet loss. that is pining both bu numerical address >> and domain name. >> >> If I ping from any computer, whether on the LAN or the internet to the >> machine I get fast responses and no packet loss. >> >> I do get good response times when I access the websites though,. >> >> Any ideas what is wrong? >> >> Charlie >> >> >> ________________________________________________ >> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. >> >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >