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date = "2007-05-29"
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title = "Slow connections with ProFTPD"
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tags = ["General", "Features", "Linux", "Ubuntu"]
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slug = "slow-connections-with-proftpd"
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description = "ProFTPd was acting up and slow to connect? Here's the fix!"
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My shiny new VPS, which is running Ubuntu Linux, uses ProFTPD for FTP access. Today I noticed that setting up the connection takes about 5 to 10 seconds. This is really annoying when editing files through FTP.
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So, I investigated and found that by default ProFTPD tries to revolve the hostname of the client in order to put that in the logs instead of a plain IP address. This lookup can take quite some time, let's say 5 to 10 seconds, especially when the look up fails and you have to wait on a time-out.
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It's easy to stop ProFTPD from behaving like this by adding the following line to your proftpd.conf in /etc/proftpd:
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<pre lang="text">IdentLookups off</pre>
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Restart ProFTPD and you'll have a fast FTP connection to enjoy! |