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Old 06-05-2001, 07:48 PM   #1
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hi all...
i'm hosting a linux server (despite the fact that i know next to nothing about linux) but anyway,i have this prob:

when my hosts tried to connect to the server via ftp, they couldnt!!Sometime they could (after a hundred tries or so),and they took a long time to log on. Why is this..??

help!!
 
Old 06-06-2001, 01:26 AM   #2
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Originally posted by katana
hi all...
i'm hosting a linux server (despite the fact that i know next to nothing about linux) but anyway,i have this prob:

when my hosts tried to connect to the server via ftp, they couldnt!!Sometime they could (after a hundred tries or so),and they took a long time to log on. Why is this..??

help!!
Hostname lookup failure(s). Change the order of lookups in /etc/nsswitch.conf, line "hosts: dns files" to "hosts: files dns"
 
  


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