Re: Newbie can't log into his own wu-ftpd server from PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.2.8)

Phillip,

This sounds like a DNS timeout issue.  The ftp daemon issues a dns request
to determine the domain of the connecting machine.  If no dns is
available, it waits until the dns timeout process has occured (30 seconds)
then continues to proces the request.  Your G4 client may have timers in
it that are faster than the 30 second limit.

Options...

install some local dns server on your ftp unit.
point to a valid ftp unit.
recomplie ftpd without dns support.

ted keller


On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Phillip Pi wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am a newbie with Linux (Debian v3.1; Sarge installer; Kernel 2.6.8), and
> I seem to have troubles getting into my wu-ftpd v2.6.2(1) [from apt-get]
> server remotely on a LAN (not used for Internet since I am on a measly
> dial-up connection). It used to work in the past (two weeks ago or more)
> even after a few minutes of waiting. I am not sure what caused this
> problem. I tried both the standalone daemon and inetd setup for wu-ftpd,
> but they resulted the same.
>
> Example:
> $ ftp ANTian-AXP (also tried 192.168.0.220 IP address)
>
> Connected to ANTian-AXP.
>
> <<a long pause for a few minutes>>
>
> 421 Service is not available, remote server timed out. Connection closed.
>
>
> I wonder if the long pauses are causing PowerBook G4 to time out/give up?
> In Windows XP Professional SP2, ftp connection is a couple minutes and
> eventually lets me log in. Even ftp to localhost, on the Debian box
> running wu-ftpd, takes too long (a few minutes) but it is fine once I am
> logged in the FTP server. Maybe I misconfigured something on the Debian
> box?
>
>
> In /var/log/messsages, I see (within the same second) from my PowerBook
> G4:
>
> localhost wu-ftpd[3821]: connection from 192.168.0.28 [192.168.0.28]
> localhost wu-ftpd[3821]: lost connection to 192.178.0.28 [192.168.0.28]
> localhost wu-ftpd[3821]: FTP session closed
>
>
> I am not sure if this is related. I can ssh (have to wait about 25-30
> seconds) from PowerBook G4's ssh -2 -C command; SecureCRT v3.4.8 was
> instant) and ping to this Debian box without problems.
>
> Any ideas on what's going on? Thank you in advance. :)
>