I believe this problem has been reported multiple times. Please open a JIRA and apply the patch, it makes perfect sense.
/niklas On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Sai Pullabhotla<sai.pullabho...@jmethods.com> wrote: > I've been noticing that the passive data connections are taking quite > some time when using SSL. I finally got some time to look into this > and noticed the following while debugging through the code. This issue > might have been introduced with the fix we put in for FTPSERVER-241. > > The code that wraps the plain socket into an SSL socket uses the > following line: > > SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket) ssocketFactory > .createSocket(serverSocket, > serverSocket.getInetAddress().getHostName(), > serverSocket.getPort(), true); > > Based on the JavaDocs, the InetAddress.getHostName() performs a > reverse name look up, which was taking about 1.5 seconds on every > system on our network. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the way > our network is setup. Some one please let me know if this in fact an > issue with our network. > > We are not seeing this lag when client and server are running on the > same system. Things work too fast in this case, probably because the > system knows very well about itself. > > Just to try it out, I changed the code to simply use the IP address > rather than the host name, and I was able to get rid of the lag and > things seem to be working much faster. Below is the change to the > above line: > > SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket) ssocketFactory > .createSocket(serverSocket, > serverSocket.getInetAddress().getHostAddress(), > serverSocket.getPort(), true); > > Could some one test the current code base with client and server > running on different systems and tell me if they notice the lag when > creating the passive data connection. If this can be reproduced on one > of your environments, we should probably put the above fix. I don't > think this suggested fix should cause any other issues, do you? > > Regards, > > Sai Pullabhotla > www.jMethods.com >
