Linksys Router and ftp problem...

[Paulson]

ok, I have my win2k adv. server all set up (have for a few weeks)

Anyways, when someone logs into my server (port 21) it logs in and finds my public IP address, then it must connect to the router, and waits and waits on 192.168.1.21 (my server private IP address given by router)

I don't know why it's displaying that, because it's a private IP address, and it really slows down ftp transfers...

anyone help?

 

[Garion]

Let me guess - It's about a 30-second delay when you're connecting and then everything starts to work again at full speed?

Chances are it's the other end trying to do a reverse DNS lookup - Probably gets your IP address then does a DNS query to try to figure out what name is assigned to it. Either that, or your NT server can't do a reverse lookup of their IP. A lot of these kinds of delays are related to wierd DNS problems.

- G