[SunHELP] Slow FTP performance

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Paul Khoury wrote:

| Actually, the problem I have is that it takes forever to get the banner
| and login prompt for FTP to show up.  When trying to FTP from my
| ThinkPad (Win2K), it takes forever, then says connection closed by host.
| Telnet works, but it's equally as slow.  Additionally, doing "ftp
| localhost" from the machine itself takes forever to get the banner and
| login, but FTP works.
|
| I just upgraded to wuftp, but I was still having the problem on one of
| the machines prior to upgrading.

Are you using tcpd (tcp_wrappers?) It is probably due to slow DNS lookups.

Half/full duplex settings isnt the issue here, as you said you're using a
Saprc 5, which has a half-duplex, 10Mbit "le' interface.

/dale