Anon FTP server slow to connect

[jaffo]

When trying to connect to my linux box thru it's anonymous ftp service, it seems to take forever before the login process finishes. Once I've logged in, though, everything is perfect.

Any hints on how to speed up the beginning part?

I'm running RH7.3 and the wuftp and anonftp that came with it....

Thanks.

-Jaffo

[cdorhout]

I had a similiar problem, and it turned out my firewall that comes with RH7.3 was slowing it down.
When I disabled the built-in firewall, and used Guarddog instead, it worked perfectly.

[jaffo]

Dang - I already have the firewall totally disabled

I thought I remebered somebody mentioning *something* about the ftp server doing reverse DNS.....did a forum search and couldn't find that post though....

Could it be reverse DNS slowing it down? Can I turn that off somewhere?

-J