Re: problem with ftp login being sooo slow

[arthur m coucouvitis <acoucouvitis atipa com>]

  hello, Kevin

  thanks for the quick reply
> Well, you got the problem right.
> It is a reverse DNS time-out.
  wow, diagnosed a reverse name lookup
  w/o getting it backwards
  ;-)
  thanks also for the previous reply
  to my 'network start' guess

> A is looking up any FTP client IPs and trying to resolve names.
> What are you doing for DNS on this network?  Just /etc/hosts on A?
  dns is on, but not configured,
  near as i can tell

> If you are really only using hosts files,
> check your /etc/nsswitch.conf
> and try putting files first for host lookups.
> (You'll see what I mean.)
  ok, it looks like 'files' is first in almost
  all the entries in nsswitch.conf
  i attached it so you can see it.

  it seems dns _is_ on (S60)
  i've tried apropos dns, bind, named
> If you are using DNS,
> put the new IPs in the DNS and you're done.
  does this info go in a zone file ?,
  like localhost.zone listed
  in /etc/named.conf
  that is mentioned in the named man page ?

  could you give me an example entry ?

  thanks,
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