[ILUG] Connecting to network services very slow.

[Paul Trainor]

Hi all,

Got a problem that doing me head in!.

I have a server on the Internet that is connected to the outside world by an
E1. There is no  problem connecting to it, it does what I need it to do just
fine....
However, when I use it to connect to other servers it is really slow.
For example. If I telnet to port 25 on a mail server, it takes about 4-5
mins for me to get the "220 mail.domain.com  ESMTP" message. The same is
true for ftp, ie it takes 4-5 mins to give me the login prompt. It resolves
the ip address straight away, so I don't think it is DNS related. Once I am
connected, cd, ls, ..etc is very slow aswell, ie I have to wait 4-5 mins for
result, however when I download a file, it is as quick as you would expect
from an E1. The same is true for sending mails. It takes 4-5 mins to make a
connection but then it sends the mail very quickly.

Any ideas??

Thanks

Paul Trainor
www.bayridge.ie