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From: cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sloooooow booting
Date: 8 Jan 1996 20:09:00 GMT
Organization: BC Systems
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
> 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.
I've had the same problem with the multicast and the localhost routing. Tuning
the host.conf file had no effect on the problem. When the DNS was down,
however, the boot went quickly. The only solution I've been able to come up
with so far is to replace the hostnames in the route_* statements in the
/etc/sysconfig script with dotted decimal IP addresses. You lose some
flexability in changing IP addresses when you need to, but it does work.
Maybe someone has a better solution to this.
> --
> 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. ;-)
Regards, Phone: (604)389-3827
Cy Schubert OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER)
Open Systems Support BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET
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