[techtalk] Delay with anon FTP Mandrake 7.2
Hi All, This is one of those little annoying things that have been bugging me lately. Using Mandrake 7.2 I find that ftp takes at least 15 to 20 seconds after connect to get the prompt going into the box. Does anyone have any idea as to why and where I may make changes? Thanks in advance, Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Linux Mandrake 7.0
Greetings Everyone, I have reinstalled and reinstalled Mandrake 7.0. I cannot get the lovely OS to realize that it is on the internet. I sign on to my Earthlink account and launch Netscape and Netscape says, "umm you aren't on the internet...and instantly returns a DNS server error." Also I have reinstalled to get my CD-ROM drive to function correctly but absolutly no success. I dbl-click on the CD-ROM drive on the desktop even as root and it says it has been dismissed (oh and yes there was a CD in the drive). The cd-rom is a HP CD-Writer 7500, Linux detects is great in Lothar, but when I try to read the cd, it says umm no. I tryed changing the premissions for the drive and everything that I could think of. Oh and is there any good ATAPI CD-Writer software for Linux? There is some that came on the Extras CD of Mandrake, but I can't get the CD-ROM to work. Thanks, Richie __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] ftp problem
to the person who wrote with the pokey ftp on mandrake, i'd try checking for roadblocks during authentication. take a look at /var/log/messages and see if it's giving you several messages before actually giving you a prompt or responding to what you tell it. if you're using pam (i think mandrake does) you might be going through a series of stuff that maybe you don't need or is erroring out for some reason. check the messages and then check /etc/pam.d/ftp to see what the chain of events is supposed to be, and see if you can match up the events and find out where the delay is, and start testing them one at time. You probably already tried ftping from the box to the box (i.e. ftp from the box you're trying to get to) to rule out networking stuff, and i rely heavily on strace (records system calls) to find out goofy stuff. i run it on top of the command and send the output to a file...like "strace -o /tmp/strace.out ftp mybox" good luck __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Delay with anon FTP Mandrake 7.2
Heya -- Quoth Phil: > This is one of those little annoying things that have been bugging me > lately. Using Mandrake 7.2 I find that ftp takes at least 15 to 20 > seconds after connect to get the prompt going into the box. Does > anyone have any idea as to why and where I may make changes? In addition to Stephanie's excellent suggestions... I've run into this before with wu-ftp and Red Hat. In my case, the problem was that wu-ftp was trying to do a DNS lookup on the IP before allowing the connection. DNS on that particular network was not running (internal corporate network), and so you had to wait for wu-ftp to attempt the lookup and time out before it would allow the connection. If your Ident lookup is blocked by a firewall or disabled (port 113), that can also cause a ten-second delay. DNS-lookup-behaviour is set at compile time -- it's an option you can pass the configure script. Cheers, Raven = "But you're the corporate whore!" "Well, what are you then, Miss CCNP? Hmmm?" [triumphantly] "A Corporate Courtesan Network Professional!" -- RavenBlack and I, talking about how to turn, er, a dime. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Delay with anon FTP Mandrake 7.2
Roger that! and thank you. Phil "Raven, corporate courtesan" wrote: > > Heya -- > > Quoth Phil: > > This is one of those little annoying things that have been bugging me > > lately. Using Mandrake 7.2 I find that ftp takes at least 15 to 20 > > seconds after connect to get the prompt going into the box. Does > > anyone have any idea as to why and where I may make changes? > > In addition to Stephanie's excellent suggestions... > > I've run into this before with wu-ftp and Red Hat. In my case, > the problem was that wu-ftp was trying to do a DNS lookup on the IP > before allowing the connection. DNS on that particular network was not > running (internal corporate network), and so you had to wait for wu-ftp > to attempt the lookup and time out before it would allow the > connection. If your Ident lookup is blocked by a firewall or disabled > (port 113), that can also cause a ten-second delay. > > DNS-lookup-behaviour is set at compile time -- it's an option you > can pass the configure script. > > Cheers, > Raven > > = > "But you're the corporate whore!" > "Well, what are you then, Miss CCNP? Hmmm?" > [triumphantly] "A Corporate Courtesan Network Professional!" > -- RavenBlack and I, talking about how to turn, er, a dime. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk -- == Phil Savoie Sun Certified Sys Admin/Instructor TMI - Learnix Tel: (613) 828-5007 ext. 4314 (Voice Mail Only) Fax: (613) 721-0599 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.learnix.com == ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Linux Mandrake 7.0
richie, how about lynx? open up a terminal emulator (Eterm, xterm, etc) and see if 'lynx freshmeat.net' will bring up their page. narrow it down to see if it's a netscape specific problem or what. as for your cd-rom drive .. did you install mandrake from that drive? if so, you may just be lacking support for the particular drive in whichever kernel you are currently running. coldie On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Puff Devil wrote: > Greetings Everyone, > I have reinstalled and reinstalled Mandrake 7.0. > I cannot get the lovely OS to realize that it is on > the internet. I sign on to my Earthlink account and > launch Netscape and Netscape says, "umm you aren't on > the internet...and instantly returns a DNS server > error." Also I have reinstalled to get my CD-ROM > drive to function correctly but absolutly no success. > I dbl-click on the CD-ROM drive on the desktop even as > root and it says it has been dismissed (oh and yes > there was a CD in the drive). The cd-rom is a HP > CD-Writer 7500, Linux detects is great in Lothar, but > when I try to read the cd, it says umm no. I tryed > changing the premissions for the drive and everything > that I could think of. Oh and is there any good ATAPI > CD-Writer software for Linux? There is some that came > on the Extras CD of Mandrake, but I can't get the > CD-ROM to work. > > Thanks, >Richie > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Delay with anon FTP Mandrake 7.2
one more thing to add ... if this is on your local network for which you do not have a dns server setup for, on the ftp hosting machine .. edit your /etc/hosts file and add an entry for each ip on your local network and give them a name. this will eliminate the dns check most ftp software does and save you 10-20s :). coldie On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Raven, corporate courtesan wrote: > Heya -- > > Quoth Phil: > > This is one of those little annoying things that have been bugging me > > lately. Using Mandrake 7.2 I find that ftp takes at least 15 to 20 > > seconds after connect to get the prompt going into the box. Does > > anyone have any idea as to why and where I may make changes? > > In addition to Stephanie's excellent suggestions... > > I've run into this before with wu-ftp and Red Hat. In my case, > the problem was that wu-ftp was trying to do a DNS lookup on the IP > before allowing the connection. DNS on that particular network was not > running (internal corporate network), and so you had to wait for wu-ftp > to attempt the lookup and time out before it would allow the > connection. If your Ident lookup is blocked by a firewall or disabled > (port 113), that can also cause a ten-second delay. > > DNS-lookup-behaviour is set at compile time -- it's an option you > can pass the configure script. > > Cheers, > Raven > > = > "But you're the corporate whore!" > "Well, what are you then, Miss CCNP? Hmmm?" > [triumphantly] "A Corporate Courtesan Network Professional!" > -- RavenBlack and I, talking about how to turn, er, a dime. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 > a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
