On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:16:15PM +0100, Tony Crawford wrote: > > By experimenting, I found out that the long lookup occurred when my > iptables rules used a netmask that does not correspond to a known > subnet, namely 192.168.2.0/28 when the local network is > 192.168.2.0/24. iptables was apparently waiting for a resolver > timeout before printing "localnet/28".
you can use /etc/networks to fill in these names. see "man networks" for the syntax, its pretty much the same as the hosts file.
