This isnt exactly an answer, but does ftp and ssh attempt a reverse lookup of the systems they are attempting to connect to?


Thanks,
John Albee

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:01:33 -0700
"Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com> wrote:

> Can you give us a dump of a route -n  and an ifconfig
> 
> It could be DNS problems,  some services hang while they do a lookup on your
> IP.  You might want to try putting an entree in the /etc/hosts file for the
> client machines and see if that helps.
> It does sound like you have more going on than that though.  So I dont know
> if that will help.
> 
> Brian
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> Hi. I have just installed Red Hat 7.0 on a computer with an 800Mhz amd duron
> processor and 128 meg ram. I installed apache and have configured 4 ip
> addresses on 1 NIC. 1 IP has a domain name, www.travelcruise.com associated
> with it and the others don't yet. the other ip addresses are 63.226.30.200,
> 201 and 202. I can reach all of them via http.
> 
> The problem is that if I try to FTP in, it takes aprox 3 minutes to connect.
> It makes no difference if I FTP in on the LAN or over the internet. To make
> an ssh connection also takes about as long.
> 
> When on this machine i can ping local host and I get no packet loss and fast
> responses, when I ping any of the ip addresses while on that machine i get
> slow responses and about 20% packet loss, also if takes 30-40 seconds before
> the pinging starts. If I ping an address on the internet, I also get slow
> response and about 20% packet loss. that is pining both bu numerical address
> and domain name.
> 
> If I ping from any computer, whether on the LAN or the internet to the
> machine I get fast responses and no packet loss.
> 
> I do get good response times when I access the websites though,.
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong?
> 
> Charlie
> 
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