(OT) Very Slow SCO Openserver FTP Openserver logins

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Probably isn't worth much.  He said 10-15min.  DNS lookup will timeout
after 2min on almost every non-customised TCP/IP stack known to man.  You'd
have to have a stack fall back to 5-8 hosts in the resolver to achieve this
miraculous delay.  I somehow doubt that's the case.

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On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 09:20:03PM -0700, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> One reason for slow logins (generically speaking) is the the server
> is making a lengthy attempt, and failing, to do reverse DNS; that
> is, trying to verify the client's IP address. You could test whether
> this is the case by adding the client's IP address to /etc/hosts.
> 
> FWIW.
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> On Wed, 27 May 2015, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:
> 
> >    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.
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> >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.
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> >    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".
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> >   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.
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> >    /var/adm/syslog shows "ftpd[2420] FTP LOGIN REFUSED (ftp not in
> >/etc/passwd) FROM 172.16.1.77 [172.16.1.77], anonymous".
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> >    I can "telnet localhost 21" and get a "FTP server (Version wu-2.6.2(11)
> >response.
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> >    "netstat -an | grep 21" shows:    tcp   0   0 *.21   *.*   LISTEN
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> >       inetd.conf  shows this  (uncommented) line:     ftp   stream   tcp
> >nowait   root   /etc/ftpd   ftpd -a
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> >    Any other suggestions?
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> >Thanks!
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> >Mike Schwartz
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