On Monday 15 October 2007 16:17, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I just tried using iptables --list on one of my servers and it took about 4 > minutes for it to list all the rules, pausing several seconds between each > batch of lines. There are a lot of rules, but if all those lines were in a > text file it would only take a fraction of a second to cat them. So the > slowness is not from printing a lot of lines to the console. > > Is this normal behaviour? Is there a way to make it print faster? > > The actual rules were generated by firehol. Using Debian Etch netinstall - > nothing abnormal.
See if "iptables --list -n" is fast. If so, it's the reverse DNS lookups that are slowing down "iptables --list", so you'll need to check DNS settings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
