DNS lookup in FC2 still slow.
Jack Bowling
jbinpg at shaw.ca
Thu Aug 5 17:39:06 UTC 2004
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 11:47:27AM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 11:40, Ben Vitale wrote:
> > David Cary Hart wrote:
> >
> > >By some chance are you using conntrack?
> > >
> > I don't believe I am using conntrack - not even sure what that is.
> >
> conntrack is the IPTables connection tracking module. It is usually
> unnecessary and (supposedly) slows down DNS considerably if used.
If you connect to _any_ hosts outside of your own LAN, connection tracking is
integral to the proper functioning of an iptables firewall.
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Jack Bowling
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