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Fixing slow FTP listing on CentOS 5.3 and safely reloading iptables config

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

I first went looking for a solution as to why connecting to FTP on my new CentOS 5.3 server was very slow. I found this post that had the answer: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/directory-listing-slow-ftp-server-centos/
The gist of it is to edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and add the following:
IPTABLES_MODULES=”ip_conntrack_ftp”
However, the big lesson here is that if you reload your iptables now you [...]

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