Posted on Monday, 11th June 2007 by Lee
I manage serveral servers and - for the most part - they are all set up using the Perfect Setup for Ubuntu. Overall the setup is great, but I have been noticing a very annoying delay when trying to log in via FTP. Everything works, but when I initially connect, 5 - 10 seconds pass by before I’m prompted for my login credentials. After many hours of pain and sadness, I finally discovered the solution.
Page six of the Perfect Setup tutorial says that you should add the following lines to your proftpd.conf file.
vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
…
DefaultRoot ~
IdentLookups off
ServerIdent on “FTP Server ready.”
…
I found that if I include those lines inside of <Global>…</Global> tags the delay goes away and I am instantly logged into the server. So, instead of the above format, add those lines inside the Global tags like this.
vi /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf
…
<Global>
DefaultRoot ~
IdentLookups off
ServerIdent on “FTP Server ready.”
</Global>
…
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