[lug] ipchains -L hangs

[Shannon Johnston]

If it's pausing for a long time on lookup of your local machines, make
sure they're entered into your /etc/hosts file.
Then in your host.conf you can set the order to hosts, bind (or DNS
whatever your preference)

That should speed it up.

Shannon

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> You're not filtering out DNS are you?  Or ICMP packets coming back in or 
> something?  On my machine, ipchains -L is always a little slow, as it looks 
> up IP addresses, turning them into domain names.
> 
> Try ipchains -L -n and see if it is faster, if so you know it is the DNS 
> lookup delaying things.
> 
> Tim
> 
> On Tuesday 12 December 2000 18:59, you wrote:
> > This command is at times _extremely_ ( 5 minutes and still thinking, after
> > printing a couple of lines ) slow:
> >
> > ipchains -L forward -v --line-numbers
> >
> > whereas adding/deleting rules happens right away.
> >
> > there are 15 rules in the chain.
> >
> > what could be the problem for the slowness of the -L command?
> >
> > Samartha
> >
> >
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