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PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:43 pm    Post subject: route output is SLOW!! [SOLVED] Reply with quote

Here is my route output. I don't think it should take 41 sec. to display my kernel routes. It slows down at my first route and at my default route at the end. My router is 72.16.133.205 and eth0 is my external interface. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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firewall root # time route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
72.16.133.204   *               255.255.255.252 U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
loopback        localhost       255.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 lo
default         72.16.133.205   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

real    0m41.039s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.003s

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:51 pm    Post subject: use route -n, or get PTR records Reply with quote

It's taking so long because it's trying to look up the hostnames for the IP addresses in the routing table, and coming up with nothing. You have two options:

1. Ask route to stop looking up the hostnames
2. Get some PTR records for those IP addresses (possibly not feasible depending on your setup)

Solution #1 is fairly easy; just add the -n flag to route, thus:
Code:
route -n


Solution #2 could involve a whole host of steps.

If the -n flag doesn't solve the issue, that may mean a problem with the network media.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:

apoc root # time route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.4.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
172.16.149.0    *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet1
172.16.109.0    *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 vmnet8
loopback        apoc.loudas.com 255.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 lo
default         192.168.4.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1

real    0m0.330s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.002s
apoc root # time ip route show
192.168.4.0/24 dev eth1  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.4.147
172.16.149.0/24 dev vmnet1  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.16.149.1
172.16.109.0/24 dev vmnet8  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.16.109.1
127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo  scope link
default via 192.168.4.254 dev eth1

real    0m0.058s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.001s
apoc root #
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:06 pm    Post subject: /proc/net/route Reply with quote

Code:
cat /proc/net/route


Will also be much faster but you have to learn to read the addresses in that format.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I appreciate the responses. I don't have any domains pointing to any of my IP(s). So that could explain the slowness of a simple route command. Here is the output of route -n:

Code:

firewall root # time route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
72.16.133.204   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.252 U     0      0        0 eth0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
127.0.0.0       127.0.0.1       255.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         72.16.133.205   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

real    0m0.003s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m0.003s


So I would chalk it up to DNS resolution.
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