RE: ipchains -L hangs

> I have noticed that sometimes, even after
> restarting my Red Hat 7 (Seawolf) machine, that
> when I run the "ipchains -L" command from root,
> the command hangs after displaying the header line.
> I have to use control-C to break out of the hanged
> program to return control to my session.

> Has anyone experienced similar issues with
> ipchains -L ( which is meant to list all of your existing rules? )

Do you have a working DNS configuration on that box? You may try it without
resolving. I believe it was 'iptables -L -n'... I already switched to
iptables...

-Oliver