On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 linux-net@gurubase.com wrote: > > I am using Redhat 6.2 and the problem is that the ftp server response time > is too long. When I ftp to serverA, "Connect to serverA" prints quickly, > but the login prompt appears after 1 minute. > > Telnet's reponse is very fast, however. /etc/host file has include the > host name of the client pc. > Please check that your /etc/resolv.conf contains some line like order hosts,bind in it. This makes the programs look in /etc/hosts (and not /etc/host), then try to query the DNS server. regards, Masoud. +--------------------------+ | Massoud A. Sharabiani | | masu@procache.com | +--------------------------+ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org