Jamie Le Souef

I found that there was a pause when connection to my FTP server. It would pause at “Connection established, waiting for welcome message…” this was driving me nuts as I use “Upload to FTP upon save” in dreamweaver to put all my files onto my test server.

This applies to Ubuntu Server 7.10

The pause occurs when proftpd is trying to identify the remote username and here is the solution:

1. edit /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
2. Find the <Global></Global> section at the end of the document
3. Add the following between <Global></Global> : IdentLookups off

Don’t forget to restart proftpd.

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Jamie Le Souef Says

If you have any other tips on speeding up Proftpd, post a reply!

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March 26th, 2008 at 11:00 am

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