Question
Cloud Firewall too slow
- Posted on May 31, 2018
- DigitalOcean Cloud FirewallsMySQL
Asked by Edmandie Samonte
Anyone else experiencing slowness when enabling cloud firewall even when using private network? I spawned up a MySQL instance droplet with another droplet running as a client. I added a tag to the DB and enabled the Cloud Firewall to that DB tag, client connections starts to intermittently timeout. I know the configuration is correct because after several retries it can pass through. Disabling the firewall (read: removing the tag) solves the lag.
Anyone experienced this? Anything that I might be missing? As a workaround, I used internal firewall UFW.
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I was just experiencing this same issue with mysql + private networked droplets. It turns out the problem was that mysql by default is attempting to resolve the DNS of inbound connections, which will fail under active cloud firewalls because the TCP/UDP port for DNS queries is blocked (unless explicitly allowed).
To resolve this you can either:
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