Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jun 1997 17:58:58 +0100 (BST) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Very slow listing of ipfwadm |
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On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Lauri Tischler wrote:
> I rebooted my routerbox and now if I try to list the firewall rules > it is really slow. masquerading doesnt seem to work either :( > It takes minutes to list of about 20 rules to the console. > Something rotten with /proc ?? > If I do cat /proc/net/ip_input it lists the thing ok.
Nothing to do with /proc. What's happening is that ipfwadm is trying to reverse DNS lookup all of the entries in your firewall table, and this takes quite some time. If you use "ipfwadm -I -l -n", it won't bother looking them up, and just give you numbers.
Cheers, Matthew.
PS. Bcc'ed to kernel list so that we don't get dozens of replies.
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