(OT) Very Slow SCO Openserver FTP Openserver logins

[Bob Rasmussen]

Duplicate IP addresses?

On Thu, 28 May 2015, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:

>> From: Bob Rasmussen [mailto:ras at anzio.com]
>>
>> 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.
>
>     Thanks for that idea, Bob.  I'm going to add one of their workstations
> to /etc/hosts and then reboot to see if that has any effect on FTP.
>
>     I don't have any control over their network setup and they did move to
> a new building in January.  They first mentioned the network slowness in
> March.  I wonder if their network guy changed something on their network in
> the server shuffle.  On one of their Windows 7 workstations, I had them do
> an" ipconfig /flushdns" command, but that didn't seem to help the problem.
>
>     From their Windows 7 workstations in Chicago, they were able to FTP to
> my servers back in Green Bay and got quick logins and normal file transfer
> times, so I don't know what their network might have to do with the problem.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mike Schwartz
>
>
>
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