Hi Folks,
I just this question in the abiword bugzilla about dashboard.
Any clues?
Thanks!
Martin
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It appears that the dashboard uses tcp sockets and quite regularly. With a
misconfigured firewall this can cause serious slow downs in Abiword as the
input
is filtered by the kernel. Iptables rules which look like the following are
doing the damage:
iptables -P INPUT DROP
If the administrator or user does not remember to enable INPUT on the
loopback
interface after such a rule. Therefore, enabling INPUT on the loopback
interface such as like:
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p all -j ACCEPT
will resolve this issue. As will removing the dashboard.
Here's the question though: Why does the dashboard use TCP sockets
instead of
UNIX sockets? Using UNIX sockets would resolve this issue even with a
misguided
firewall configuration.
regards
Alastair
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