If you experience problems with slow logins in pure-ftpd, this is often caused by a problem with the resolving of the clients hsotname. This happens e.g. when you run a FTP server in your intranet and the hostname of the client computer does not exist in DNS. To disable name resolving in pureftpd, run the command:

echo 'yes' > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/DontResolve

and then restart pure-ftpd

/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd-mysql restart

Disabling name resolving also fixes the following error message:

Jul 24 16:26:28 ispconfig pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Sorry, invalid address given

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6 thoughts on “How to speed up logins in pure-ftpd on Debian or Ubuntu Linux by disable name resolving”

  • Xeross
    December 29, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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    Thanks for this, I’m currently on an optimization spree for my linux server ^^

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  • sikat ang pinoy
    January 12, 2010 at 11:20 am
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    Hi I still got an error. I already did that in the step by step setup in ispconfig3 using ubuntu 8.04

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  • cristian
    September 6, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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    Thank You…this works fine with me !!

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  • Buzzknow
    November 8, 2010 at 2:44 pm
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    how to do this under centos 5 32bit?

    sorry i’m linux noob ..

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  • Neelanjan
    September 6, 2013 at 10:24 am
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    pro-ftpd installed
    Issue resolved.

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  • Nathan Friend
    November 22, 2013 at 11:34 am
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    Perfect, did the job. Thank you.

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