06.12.2010 16:59, Jan Engelhardt wrote: [] > If the network is not up, the potential connections to the database > immediately terminate with "No route to host". This is only true if at least the loopback interface is up. If no interface is up-n-running, the connection times out, slowly. It is for this reason I usually put firewall rules in post-up of loopback interface. /mjt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html