ftp server frustrating

[Vizion]

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 13:00,  the author Dan Nelson contributed to the 
dialogue on-
 Re: ftp server frustrating: 

>In the last episode (May 31), Vizion said:
>> On Tuesday 31 May 2005 12:26,  the author Lowell Gilbert contributed to the 
dialogue on-  Re: ftp server frustrating:
>> >Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:
>> >> I still cant understand why the cut off is set so short!!
>> >
>> >Well, for one thing, it *isn't* as short as you were claiming; my
>> >testing right now indicates that it's (at least) over a minute.
>>
>> My testing here does conflicts with yours. there seems to be some
>> network delays for freebsd.. I do not know when the timing starts --
>>
>> I get a message from the server that cuts me off when I am tryiong to
>> log in saying I did not login within 15 seconds. Here is an example
>> output from ftp.freebsd.org when logging in:
>
>ftp.freebsd.org is actually 2 machines; the one at 62.243.72.50
>(ftp.beastie.tdk.net) seems to have the 15 second timeout.  The one at
>204.152.184.73 (freebsd.isc.org) doesn't.
Ok so we are now agreed that the timing for the machine to which I connected 
is set at 15 seconds?

dns returns 62.243.72.50 so that machine is the first contact. Surely it is 
not intended to be aset so that manually logins are virtually impossible.. I 
do not see anything in your reference to indicate such a goal.

Is there any reason why the timimg on that machine cannot be adjusted so that 
it is the same as the machine you tested? If it is a minute or more that 
would be reasonable but 15 seconds is far too short for anyone at the 
keyboard who is not a keyboard racing greyhound!! :-)

david
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