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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!csulb.edu!info.ucla.edu!agate!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: long delay in boot process Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:55:56 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4vdc9c$i2g@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <ulfDwFsJJ.4uM@netcom.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E ulf@netcom.com (Ulf Schmidt) wrote: > I have 4 FreeBSD systems, and all boot very fast, except for my DNS. > The startup process hangs for about 2 min. after the following messages: > > 1. after the interface de0 is defined and configured w/ its IP-paramameters > delay for 2min. after displaying 'ether 00:dd:xxxx' > 2. after the message: 'starting routed.' > > I was able to fix this once, but I can't figure out how I did it. What > could cause a delay at these points? Use numerical IP addresses for interface and route configuration in /etc/sysconfig. This avoids chicken-and-egg problems with DNS. -- 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. ;-)