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On Tuesday 30 April 2002 9:14 pm, Andrew Greenburg wrote:
> At 04:07 PM 4/30/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:58:23PM -0500, Andrew Greenburg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been using an iptables-based firewall at the office for several
> > > months, and all of a sudden today I started having problems with
> > > opening network connections to UNIX hosts. The port opens, and then it
> > > sits there for about 60 seconds before it actually responds. After
> > > that, the connection works normally. My tcp/ip connections to NT-based
> > > servers work fine. There have been absolutely no changes to the
> > > configuration of the netfilter box.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> >DNS??
>
> Well, I've been trying to connect by IP address.
No, I think what Ramin meant was "reverse DNS".
Maybe the server is trying to do a reverse lookup on your IP address to see
if it can put a hostname into its logfiles ?
Antony.
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