Re: ipfwadm 2.3.0, 1996/07/30

[Eric Lee Green <eric linux-hw com>]

On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Barrett G. Lyon wrote:
> I've been reading the info on how ipfwadm that comes with Redhat 5.1 has
> been not working with glibc, and I have rpm'd the version 2.3.0
> (1996/07/30) from the redhat 5.0 distrib.  Well, that will take the rules,
> and work with them... EXCEPT my system starts to run extremly odd.  Login
> takes 5 minutes, and some other operations seem to just pause.  If I remove

Sounds like you made the mistake that I made once -- you firewalled out
your nameserver :-).

The delays you mention are programs trying to look up your nameserver. 
Won't work unless you put in its IP address with an "allow" rule :-). 

Eric Lee Green   eric@linux-hw.com         Linux Hardware Solutions
Systems Specialist                    Quality Systems Designed For Linux