Fred Chagnon wrote:
>>Can you catch one of these with truss and see what it's waiting on? At
>>first blush, I'd wonder if it was hanging on DNS resolution or similar.
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> I suspected this at first, but when I snoop the network interface I
> don't see very many DNS resolution requests. Not near enough to match
> the number of transactions anyway. Furthermore, I don't understand why
> the change in OS would have introduced a DNS resolution bottleneck. Is
> it possible to configure in.ftpd to not need this?
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> Fred

Your DNS resolver may not transmit a request for EACH name to be
resolved. If there is caching going on, the resolver may "remember" the
answer rather than having to go to a server for it.