From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 22:04:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B461065671 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:04:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@transducertech.com) Received: from sandrock.mpowercom.net (sandrock.mpowercom.net [208.57.196.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82BF8FC1C for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:04:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave@transducertech.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sandrock.mpowercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE244403E4; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.8] (sjc-static-208.57.189.179.mpowercom.net [208.57.189.179]) by sandrock.mpowercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB27044035F; Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4887AADF.5080102@transducertech.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:04:15 -0700 From: Dave Abouav User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger References: <4887A1D4.2070404@transducertech.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:04:14 -0000 Our DNS goes through our ISP. The IP addresses of their DNS servers are hard-coded into the server's /etc/rc.conf file. No amount of waiting seems to help. It always just hangs trying to load sshd. Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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? > -- Dave Abouav Product Manager & Software Engineer KWJ Engineering, Transducer Technology Division Phone: (510) 791-0951 Fax: (510) 794-4330 Email: dave@transducertech.com