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From: Paul Richards <dpr>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sloooooow booting
Date: 9 Jan 1996 21:43:58 GMT
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cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group) wrote:
>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.
>

Make sure you have entries in /etc/hosts for anything that needs to be looked
up before the connection is working. Tweaking /etc/host.conf will probably
work better then.

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