Re: Slow iptables && impatient cron solved
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote:
>
> By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred when my
> iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond to a known
> subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local network is
> 192.168.2.0/24. iptables was apparently waiting for a resolver
> timeout before printing "localnet/28".
you can use /etc/networks to fill in these names.
see "man networks" for the syntax, its pretty much the same as the
hosts file.
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