On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:29:25AM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>     Shorewall now resolves protocol and port names using Perl's
>     interface to the the standard C library APIs getprotobyname() and
>     getservbyname(). It may be a bit slower on large configurations but
>     it keeps the distribution maintainers happy.

If anybody does have a genuine performance problem (notably people
with modified nsswitch.conf configurations), nscd is now likely to
solve it - for all their applications, not just shorewall.

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