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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD machine halts during bootup phase
Date: 19 Apr 1997 16:00:13 GMT
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In article <01bc4c9a$642d5ba0$05c9b0cf@reality>,
	"Kurt Schafer" <kschafer@cyberbeach.net> writes:
> One of my 2.2.1 machines always halts during the bootup phase just after it
> says it's adding in the default gateway.
> 
> Hitting a CTRL-C moves it past that phase and the machine says it's
> clearing /tmp out and it then completes booting to the login prompt.
> 
> Can anybody shed some light on what is causing the machine to choke at this
> point ?

When my 2.0.5 and 2.1 boxes did this in my office network, it was
because the name server was unhappy.  Depending on how you've
specified your router the route command may be waiting for a DNS
lookup to get the IP address to create the route, or waiting for
a DNS lookup to report the action taken using the official hostname
of the router.

You should specify the static routes as IP addresses, and fix the
route command to use "-n" in /etc/netstart (man route).  I also
put my router in /etc/hosts and fixed /etc/host.conf to prefer
/etc/hosts over DNS.

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON