Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:36:11 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about su and network Message-ID: <20050715203611.C7FB75D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:06:19 PDT." <200507151906.j6FJ6JqP034933@mx1.csl.sri.com>
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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 > > > 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
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