bind causing slow internal ftp connection

[Simon Waters]

Giulio Borrini - Netbuilder wrote:
> 
> The problem is that when BIND is running, ftp connections to the server from
> other machines of my LAN become very slow.
> Everything still work fine from external machines.
> 
> Any idea?

Almost invariable the ftp server is attempting to lookup
their IP address in the DNS, to find out their names. Either
add a reverse zone for your local LAN, or reconfigure your
ftp server not to reverse lookup the addresses. There is a
lot about this in the archive <hint hint>.