Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:55:45 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Dave Abouav <dave@transducertech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available Message-ID: <D120C317-6B17-46C2-B823-F30276CCB090@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4887A1D4.2070404@transducertech.com> References: <4887A1D4.2070404@transducertech.com>
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On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote: > I setup a FreeBSD server (v 6.1) for my company as a simple Samba > server. It works fine. Except once in awhile our access to the > outside internet goes out (due to our ISP), and when it does the > FreeBSD server gets hung up, even after rebooted. This happened this > morning, so I put a console on it, and rebooted it. I saw that it > gets hung trying to start sshd. No error messages are given. If I > hit Control-C, to skip loading sshd, then the rest of the boot-up > goes normally and people can again access the server. Any ideas how > I can avoid this problem? I'd rather not skip the loading of sshd. I > don't have any special programs on the server that contact the > outside world. It's probably doing something which needs a DNS lookup. Do you have a subnet-local nameserver available, or does simply waiting for 2 minutes or so for a timeout do the trick? -- -Chuck
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