bin/62139: User cannot login through telnet or ssh because of reverse resolving delay

[Rostislav Krasny]

--- Yar Tikhiy <yar at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Synopsis: User cannot login through telnet or ssh because of reverse
> resolving delay
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: yar
> State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 13 11:37:35 UTC 2006
> State-Changed-Why: 
> This problem has been fixed in HEAD and RELENG_6 by making
> sure that the resolver will make exactly the specified number
> of attempts and by reducing the default number of attempts to
> 2 per nameserver in accordance with common practice in other
> friendly OSen.
> 
> Now sshd, telnetd, or ftpd won't time out even if all 3 nameservers
> (the possible maximum) are down.

The FTP timeout was on the client ftp(1) side, not on the ftpd(8) side. The
  resolving attempts time of ftpd(8) with default configuration has been
decreased and now with empty /etc/ftphosts that time is smaller than ftp(1)
command reply timeout. This timeout is 60 seconds and it is hardcoded in
ftp.c. However with a number of additional hosts in /etc/ftphosts the
resolving could take much more time and ftp(1) will still fail to log in.

About 9 days ago I sent an email to Luke Mewburn <lukem at netbsd.org> (the
author of lukemftp) with a proposal of new command line option that could
allow one to change the FTP command reply timeout manually and to log in
even in the described above situation. Unfortunately I didn't get any reply
from Luke yet.

> Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->yar
> Responsible-Changed-By: yar
> Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Mar 13 11:37:35 UTC 2006
> Responsible-Changed-Why: 
> So I can see feedback.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62139

Some time after I got my Gmail account I check my Yahoo Mail accound
rarely. Is it possible to change the originator's address of this PR to
rosti.bsd at gmail.com ?

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