From: Jonathan Williams (jonathw@shubertorg.com)
Date: Fri May 09 2003 - 13:38:38 EDT
Ok. I just wanted to clarify a couple of things, because several emails I'm
receiving ask the same thing:
After the loooong delay for the login prompt, everything works just fine. The
actual FTP session is not running slowly, just that initial connection.
Also, I've tried and was successfully able to do a reverse lookup on Tommy for
the FTP client that would be connecting.
That's it for now. But I would just like to say that I really appreciate some
of these emails you people are putting together. Some of them obviously took a
lot of thought and time to compose. I just got one from Mark Deiss that looks
so long and detailed, I might go grab a cup of coffee before digging into it!!
Keep up the wonderful work everyone!
Jonathan Williams
Unix Systems Administrator
The Shubert Organization, Inc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Williams" <jonathw@shubertorg.com>
To: "Tru64-Unix-Managers (E-mail)" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 12:18 PM
Subject: FTP delay
> Hi. We currently use one of our Alphas (running 5.1a) as an internal DNS
> server--at one time it was our only DNS server. Recently (well, about 2 years
> ago anyway) we added a bunch of NT DNS machines that most everything in the
> company uses for their DNS servers. Only a few machines use the original
Alpha
> for DNS. So I was thinking of switching everything over to the NT machines,
and
> do away with DNS running on the Alpha.
> Currently none of our Tru64 Alpha boxes use the NT DNS. So I just wanted to
> make sure it would work OK before making any big decisions. So I took my
little
> AlphaStation 200 named Tommy (running 5.1a patchkit 3), and pointed it at the
NT
> DNS server. Of course everything works just fine, except for one odd thing:
>
> When I FTP to this workstation from any other machine, it immediately says
> "Connected to tommy", but then there is a long delay (about a minute I'd say)
> before I get the login prompt (long enough for Big Brother to consider the FTP
> service to be DOWN). If I point this machine back to the Alpha DNS server,
> there is no delay at all. I've seen this sort of behavior with Telnet in the
> past, and that turned out to be because the reverse lookup on the DNS wasn't
> working. As soon as we fixed the reverse lookup, the delay went away. So
that
> was the first thing I checked in the ftp situation, and I can nslookup little
> Tommy both forwards and backwards no problem.
>
> Other than FTP, everything seems to be working OK. Telnet is fine, even sftp2
> works just fine. Has anyone seen this sort of odd delay before? Any help
would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jonathan Williams
> Unix Systems Administrator
> The Shubert Organization, Inc.
>
>
>
>
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