ftpd is slow

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Mon Oct 30 06:55:36 PST 2006


On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:09:43PM +0300, Eugene wrote:
> I have an ftpd on both my server machines, one is running FreeBSD 4.7 and
> the pther one is running DragonFlyBSD 1.6.0.
> The problem is that ftp replies on requests with a great delay in both
> cases. The delay is about one minute, and there is no matter, if the
> request came from a local network or from the Internet.  The CPU load of
> those machines is <10 %, and network load is rather small too.
> If someone can tell me how to improve performance on a DragonFly machine?

Do you have a firewall blocking tcp port 113 (identd) ?  Try not to block
it, or to return RST on it.  Many ftp servers by default try to connect to
the remote hosts' identd, and wait for the timeout.

	Geert





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