On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:35 +0100, Robert Davies wrote:
the ftp conneting speed is painful slow. The windoze 2k box first tries to have ftp routed over 10.0.0.191, then it realizes (due to the rejected packtes which produces icmp dest unreachables) it has to use the proxy's port 3128.
Look this is a browser bug, if you have set a proxy and it's ftp is not using the proxy.
MSIE seems to have the usual bug found in this environment: everyone wants to reinvent functionality which is already there -- and failes to do it right the first five times. :( Although there's common code in Windows to request and retrieve files, IE apparently tries itself -- while passing by any configured proxies. Search for an option named something like "folder view for FTP servers" (don't know the exact wording, since I usually keep away from this crappy software as far as I can).
The name resolution should only occur once for the ftp server, but the idea that it's trying WINS and then falling back to DNS is a good one, just ignore M$ and use DNS.
Excuse me, but how is prefering WINS over DNS of advantage in an IP environment? I always know the other end is an NT based webserver when it stupidly asks the client(!) - of cause on port 137 - "who are you?" instead of asking the authoritative DNS server "who is that one over there?". I don't see the point in believing what an arbitrary workstation wants me to believe and always prefer to ask those who should know. MS somehow implements a little of a common mechanism, but always gets something wrong in their design ...
Then it connects after ages of waiting to the ftp server in pasv mode. Trying to change directory on a ftp server takes up to several minutes of waiting.
You have time outs on every connection, sometimes this is because the ftp server is making an IDENT check? Perhaps you need to deny rather than reject/drop packets (forgive me if it's reject & deny/drop and I've mixed that up).
Yes, it's vice versa. To "deny" is to simply drop the packet, to "reject" is to wink back by waving "no, not here, please". virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.