From: Dennis Boone (phccobo.xdaa@osclub.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 21:59:34 EET
You've probably thought of this, but are you doing "route -n"?
DNS timeouts would explain slow listing of the route table combined
with normal routing performance.
Dennis Boone
KB8ZQZ
> When viewing routing tables, is S-L-O-W response (several minutes on a
> PII, 225 MHz, 2.4.19 kernel) to the /sbin/route command normal, or is
> it an indication of a misconfiguration? I have two Linux-based
> routers with two Ethernet interfaces, static routing, iptable
> filtering and NATing, etc., and both respond VERY SLOWLY when viewing
> the routing table. /sbin/route responds VERY quickly, however, if a
> default route is either not specified or removed from the routing
> table. The iptable filter doesn't seem to matter (however one machine
> takes a VERY long time (several minutes) to initialize my iptable
> rules at boot-up).
> Despite this, both machines seem to route and filter packets quite
> nicely. I'm just curious whether the slow response I'm observing is
> normal, or an indication of a problem.
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