[asterisk-users] odd issue with IP tables

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Sat Nov 18 21:33:21 MST 2006


On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 07:04:55PM -0600, Curt Shaffer wrote:
> I put iptables on my asterisk box and an odd thing occurs. I allow 5060 and
> 10000-20000. As soon as I start iptables and make a call it literally takes
> 60-90 seconds before the call even starts to ring. As soon as I shut
> iptables off, the call goes through immediately again. Its quite odd. The
> call does eventually go through and talks fine but it takes sooo long to
> connect. Anyone have some suggestions?

You're almost certainly blocking DNS lookups, somewhere.

Cheers,
-- jra
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