Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:47:30 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: mark@putte.seeware.dialix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing advice Message-ID: <96Oct13.194738pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Oct 96 16:01:44 PDT." <Dz8LAw.LrF.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
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In message <Dz8LAw.LrF.L.doorway@seeware.DIALix.oz.au> you write: >Alternatively, I have had defaultroute=10.0.0.5 but then some >X11 applications take 90 seconds to start (they seem to be >waiting on some network info). They are probably trying to resolve your (or some) IP address. You should either: - put whatever name / IP address combination your apps are trying to resolve (definitely localhost and your own host as a start) in /etc/hosts; your /etc/host.conf already has "hosts" before "bind" or - run a local caching name server, so that it can respond to name service requests even when the network is down, and point your resolv.conf to that server first. Bill
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