[BlueOnyx:03172] Re: ProFTP connection speed

[Darrell D. Mobley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> On Behalf Of Stephanie Sullivan
> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 9:56 AM
> To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:03168] Re: ProFTP connection speed
> 
> When I have seen this happen it's an indication that my IP - the IP of my
> ISP has given to my office or home router - does not have a valid ptr.
> When this issue was resolved by my ISP things went back to instant
connections
> and happy again.
> 
> I haven't followed this discussion closely, so if I'm repeating something
> already said, oops!
> 
> In the meanwhile you might consider making sure that your proftpd.conf has
> BOTH:
> 
>   IdentLookups off
>   UseReverseDNS off

Yes, I have both of those set, so it had to be something DNS related.  Funny
thing is, now that I left an FTP session active and NOOPing, I tried it
again and it'sback to no delay.  Odd.

> Where ever you have the identlookups you should have both. Now, I don't
> like having reverse lookups off, so when the actual problem is resolved, I
> would comment out the usereversedns setting and go back to the default of
> looking up reverse dns.

I have thought about this, because this effects the way IPs/resolved IPs are
displayed in the last log.  Do you have a reason you prefer it on?