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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: route add on boot
Date: 28 May 1996 23:19:41 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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Message-ID: <4og1md$bcr@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
References: <1996May26.024631.17673@cs.mun.ca> <4od33r$i9k@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <4od33r$i9k@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>amigus@cs.mun.ca (Adam Migus) wrote:
>
>> add host (hostname): gateway localhost: File Exists
>> add net 224.0.0.0: gateway (hostname)
>
>Use only numerical IP addresses this early in the game, no host names.
>For the default name resolution order (DNS first, /etc/hosts second),
>the routing to the nameserver is not yet established, so the boot
>process waits until DNS times out, and then falls back to /etc/hosts.

Is there any point having these? I commented them out on my system
months ago, after seeing Garrett Wollman say they were totally bogus.

-current's sysconfig has them commented out as well and instead has
the line

static routes=""

(without an underscore between 'static' and 'routes'!)

What's the recommendation?

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
jraynard@dial.pipex.com
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk