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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!warrane.connect.com.au!imp.fl.net.au!imp.fl.net.au!adf From: adf@imp.fl.net.au (Andrew Foster) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network problem on FreeBSD 2.1 ? Date: 15 Dec 1995 22:00:44 GMT Organization: First Link Internet Services Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4asr6c$png@imp.fl.net.au> References: <4alc7t$mkv@karri.bs.wa.gov.au> <4anrmv$1j5@parody.tecc.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: imp.fl.net.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, : > : >The machine boots and runs OK; but when it gets to the : >'ifconfig lo0 inet localhost' line, it sits there for five full : >minutes before continuing. In a similar way; when adding the : >default, and static routes, each route add command takes 2 minutes : >to return. : Sounds like a nameserver time-out. : >As I said, the machine runs OK, but the long delay in executing : >network config commands seems wrong. : At a guess, the hostnames are in /etc/hosts but the machine tries to : get them from a nameserver first. : Change /etc/hosts.conf to read : hosts : bind I have the same problem, and that does make sense. When I run /etc/netstart manually when the system is up it runs very fast indeed ... Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Foster adf@fl.com.au