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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!snowdon.elsevier.co.uk!news From: Paul Richards <dpr> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sloooooow booting Date: 9 Jan 1996 21:43:58 GMT Organization: Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4cuniu$brp@snowdon.elsevier.co.uk> References: <30f04585.1812485@news.vivid.net> <4cr4kl$pl@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4crtks$46q@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: towy.elsevier.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) X-URL: news:4crtks$46q@orca.osg.gov.bc.ca 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. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work)