Hi,
I recently noticed that one of my firewalls was taking a very long time
to reboot. Which was odd as its a very new machine.
On investigation is seemed to be the iptables-restore command that was
adding 10+ minutes to the boot-up times.
I ran iptables-restore from a terminal and found that it was indeed
taking an amazingly long time.
Obviously I assumed it was related to the rules on the server, so I
flushed all rules and all user defined tables from the firewall (nat,
mangle and filter) and used iptables-save which took less than 1
millisecond :) on the empty rule set.
However iptables-restore is still taking 10+ minutes even with no rules
to read / apply.
Has anyone seen the behaviour before? or has anybody got some bright
ideas on how I might continue debugging this issue?
Thanks in Advance
Regards
Ben
