[WBEL-users] Shorewall Firewall Scripts on WBEL

[Alan Sparks]

Joe Aldeguer wrote:
> Has anyone run into a similar problem each time I restart
> my WBEL box it hangs during bootup when loading Shorewall's
> firewall script. I've timed it and it takes about 7 minutes
> to complete the boot proccess.

Is there a possibility that you're doing DNS lookups before things are 
ready, or that DNS queries are getting blocked during firewall init? 
Sounds like you're getting hit with DNS timeouts...
-Alan

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