On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Enrique Arredondo wrote:

> Where can I find a log or settings on my sco 5.0.5 box to find out why is
> that when somebody tries to ftp in this machine it takes sometimes a couple
> of seconds and some times it's instantaneously and worse times it just drops
> the connection and leaves an fptd process running. How come on the same
> machine all incoming telnet connections are 100% completed and fast when
> given the login ???

Could it be the inetd waiting for an ident reply? In some cases, a reply
is sent, in other cases, the ident query is rejected and finally, in
others, the ident query is silently dropped. In the latter case, the inetd
may wait for a timeout period.