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From: Greg Lehey <grog>
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Subject: Re: Long Delay while booting
To: gism@isot.isot.com (Global Internet Shopping Mall)
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 19:12:41 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199608271005.FAA00239@isot.isot.com> from "Global Internet Shopping Mall" at Aug 27, 96 05:05:26 am
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Global Internet Shopping Mall writes:
> 
> When rebooted there is a long delay (2~5 minutes) after displaying:
> ep0: flags=.....
>         inet .....
> lo0: flags=......
>         ....
> <long delay...  Pressing CTRL-C continues on>
> 
> What causes this?

It's probably a name server timeout.  Check that you don't have domain
name referencess that you can't resolve locally, since at this point
the name server isn't running.

Greg