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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!beta.nedernet.nl!usenet From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: route add on boot Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:28:45 +0200 Organization: Systemics Ltd. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <31AC34ED.33FADC43@systemics.com> References: <1996May26.024631.17673@cs.mun.ca> <4od33r$i9k@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4og1md$bcr@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mainstreet.support.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) X-Forwarded: by - (DeleGate2.8.31) James Raynard wrote: > > In article <4od33r$i9k@uriah.heep.sax.de>, > >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. For what it's worth, this is what I use in /etc/sysconfig: static_routes="loopback1 loopback2 internet multicast" route_internet="default -interface <IP of remote PPP>" route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface 192.168.0.1" route_loopback1="192.168.0.1 127.0.0.1" route_loopback2="<my IP addr> 127.0.0.1" and I don't use a default router: defaultrouter="NO" I also use: ifconfig_tun0="" and my /etc/start_if.tun0 contains: /usr/sbin/ppp -auto leased-line Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06