Re: Slow iptables && impatient cron solved

["Tony Crawford" <tc-list@crawfords.de>]

Alan James wrote (on 20 Feb 2002 at 15:53):

> 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.

I already tried that, with no apparent success, but I'll try it
some more--that's the kind of nice painless solution I'd like
best. I sure don't want to install BIND here.

> see "man networks" for the syntax, its pretty much the same as
> the hosts file.

I get "Undocumented" for that. (This is a potato/2.4.9 à la Bunk-
-is that man page in Woody maybe?)

Thanks for the tips!

Tony

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