On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Mike Hicks wrote: > It worked for me. Thanks -- I thought I had it, but punctuation being what it is... > > 3: > > Has anyone noticed / can anyone explain why on a 486 box, when > > ipchains or the routing table are listed, at least the first > > time, it takes a *really* long time for them to respond with > > the table? I mean that ipchains -L gives the headers, but then > > waits like a _minute_ or two. If you're patient, it comes, and > > after that is fast. What's making it think so hard the first time? > > It's doing a reverse DNS lookup on the IP addresses. Using `ipchains -L > -n' should be a lot faster. OK. I bet that's what I'm seeing with the port forwarding too. I've got DNS set up, but reverse is still pending between granitecanyon and my ISP (just made some changes.) That's a little bit important, eh? Cheers, Phil -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous