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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 03:59:01 -0600
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Services very slow on Firewall/nat boxes.
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* Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au> [011119 03:45] wrote:
> 
> I am running natd on a FreeBSD box with IPFIREWALL and IPDIVERT added to
> the kernel. Firewall type is open.
> 
> I have noticed that when you run a server (eg. sendmail, named, pop3 etc.)
> on the above, initial connection to the service is very slow (ie. between
> 5 and 60 seconds ), however once connection has been established data
> transfer becomes very fast (as per normal).
> 
> If I disable natd and replace kernel with original, initial connection to
> services is very fast.
> 
> This box is on a network with very little traffic.
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any help on speeding up initial connection to
> services.

Your DNS isn't working for some reason while you're running NATd.

Please try the freebsd-questions forum for questions like this.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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