{"id":109,"date":"2008-08-08T23:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T22:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2013-01-10T02:55:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T02:55:08","slug":"proftpd-connection-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2008\/proftpd-connection-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"ProFTPd Connection Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that ProFTPd took a few seconds to connect. On a LAN, it should be instant.<\/p>\n<p>Sniffing traffic, it seemed that ProFTPd was first making an auth request using the ident protocol before falling back to user\/pass authentication. This seems to be the standard behaviour according to RFC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/rfcs\/rfc912.html\">912<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/rfcs\/rfc931.html\">931<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/rfcs\/rfc1413.html\">1413<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some google searching turned up a page over at metafilter concerning <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/93060\/Vista-FTP-connection-delay\">connection delay<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adding this to the ProFTPd configuration file disabled the auth checks and made connecting\/authorising instant, as it should be.<br \/>\n<code>IdentLookups off<\/code><\/p>\n<p>On Debian, the ProFTPd config file is at <code>\/etc\/proftpd\/proftpd.conf<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that ProFTPd took a few seconds to connect. On a LAN, it should be instant. Sniffing traffic, it seemed that ProFTPd was first making an auth request using the ident protocol before falling back to user\/pass authentication. This seems to be the standard behaviour according to RFC&#8217;s 912, 931 and 1413 Some google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,40,41,51,74,94,233,134,145],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-auth","tag-config","tag-connection","tag-delay","tag-ftp","tag-lag","tag-linux","tag-proftpd","tag-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}