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Re: [LUG] FTP delays
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Simon Waters wrote:
> The only way I can see this being a Linux issue is if the ftpd is doing
> a reverse look up on the client attempting to connect - some ftpd do
> this as a security/logging feature. This is a very daft security
> feature, and a logging feature of dubious utility since you could always
> look it up, but you risk an attack on your DNS by enabling it.
As far as I'm aware, both telnetd and ftpd (of the wu variety at least) do
this out of the box. The easy way round this is to have an entry in the
linux machines host file for each machine that may access it:
192.168.1.1 gilbert
192.168.2.1 tiber
etc...
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