(OT) Very Slow SCO Openserver FTP Openserver logins

[Mike Schwartz]

     I know this is off-topic for the filePro group, but I have an SCO
Openserver 6 box that started having  slow LAN FTP logins.  Using the
browsers on their Windows 7 desktops, they FTP to the SCO box on their local
network to retrieve PDF documents that are created with filePro 5.7.

 

 For the past 5 years, their FTP logins were instantaneous, but for the past
couple of months they noticed that FTP logins were "a little slow and seemed
to be getting slower".  However, today their FTP logins got extremely long,
like about 10 or 15 minutes to get to a login prompt.  Then, after they type
in their user name and password, their session times out.

 

     I had them open a command prompt on their Windows machine and type in
ftp 172.16.1.104, but they still do not connect.    After a couple of
minutes, the FTP session times out with "Connection Closed by remote host".

 

    From a telnet session, I can "ftp localhost" and get an instantaneous
login.  A server reboot this evening didn't improve the FTP login speed.
Telnet sessions on the LAN are normal speed.  The speed to HTTP to
172.16.1.104 is normal.  Ping times to the server are under 1 MS. 

 

     /var/adm/syslog shows "ftpd[2420] FTP LOGIN REFUSED (ftp not in
/etc/passwd) FROM 172.16.1.77 [172.16.1.77], anonymous".  

 

     I can "telnet localhost 21" and get a "FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(11)
response.

 

     "netstat -an | grep 21" shows:    tcp   0   0 *.21   *.*   LISTEN

 

        inetd.conf  shows this  (uncommented) line:     ftp   stream   tcp
nowait   root   /etc/ftpd   ftpd -a

 

     Any other suggestions?

 

Thanks!

 

Mike Schwartz

 

 

 

     

     

 

  

 

   

    

 

    

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