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To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:36:11 -0700
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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Subject: Re: Question about su and network 
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> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:06:19 -0700
> From: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> When my ISDN line was down yesterday, I noticed that su from an xterm
> would hang on my FreeBSD box.  Logging in as root from a virtual console
> would work OK.  After the network came back everything went back to
> normal.
> 
> Is there a way I can avoid this behavior?  I mean the hanging, not the
> return to normal operation. :-)

This really belongs in questions, not current, but you can't get to your
DNS server when the network is down. You need to put an entry for your
system in /etc/hosts. Something like:
192.168.1.4    myhost myhost.fully.qualified
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634