Re: FTP access

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 06:39 AM 3/6/00 , Darren Line wrote:

> How long should it take to log in
> anonymously? 

Not long.  I suppose there are other possibilities but unless you have a
*really* slow (or overburdened) machine, latencies in networked services
seem to come from elements timing out.  For example, if DNS is
mis-configured or otherwise not working.  This (DNS) is simple to
check: ftp to the IP address and see if you have a similar lag; if not,
it's probably your culprit.  Also check the logs of the ftp server
for any messages (I would try to access it, then immediately do an 'ls
-trl /var/log' and look at the end of the recently updated files with
'tail -30 <filename>').

-Alan

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