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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sloooooow booting Date: 8 Jan 1996 13:02:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4cr4kl$pl@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <30f04585.1812485@news.vivid.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 delpi@vivid.net (David M. Davis) writes: > Since installing PPP, my FreeBsd Machine takes forever to boot. All > seems to go well until we reach lo0. After lo0 returns thaere is > about a 1 minute wait and then the tun0: device appears. This is > followed by add net very quickly. Now we have about a 5 minute wait > for the boot process to continue. This is the add route 224.0.0.0 thingie. (Some people claim that it's bogus anyway, but i don't have no clues about MCAST at all.) The route command causes a request to your name server which is certainly not yet reachable, so it waits until the DNS query times out. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)