Question

Attaching a firewall to a droplet slows down DNS resolution by 2 seconds

I recently noticed that running git on my server became a lot slower. I timed the time it takes to resolve github.com and this is the result:

$ time dig github.com +short
140.82.121.3

real    0m2.011s
user    0m0.011s
sys     0m0.005s

Over 2 seconds! When I removed my droplet from the firewall, the result was dramatically different:

$ time dig github.com +short
140.82.121.3

real    0m0.013s
user    0m0.008s
sys     0m0.004s

Here’s the configuration of my firewall:

DigitalOcean panel firewall settings
Firewall settings

Why is that happening?


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Bobby Iliev
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February 26, 2023
Accepted Answer

Hi there,

Make sure to also allow All UDP to the Outbound Rules and that will fix the issue.

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby

I am facing same issue, +1

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