[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, Phi

[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

[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 mandr

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?

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 i

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 lack

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 an