From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 14:17:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28860 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:17:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28706 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA29070; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 14:16:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: asura cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Delayed boot and other junk... In-Reply-To: <199805201453.HAA12994@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 May 1998, asura wrote: > I'm sorry if this is a popular question and I do seem to remember > reading somewhere about some of the causes of this, but no I'm stumped! > I have two machines exhibiting the same symptoms- I have version 2.2.6 > with a custom kernel...theses problems weren't evident until after I > played with /etc/ttys and installed more virtual terminals. This > machine boots and then takes a lifetime to load sendmail...after finally > getting sendmail loaded, it proceeds until it reaches Local Package > Initialization: where it takes an even longer time...just sitting. > Then some errors are reported, i don't have them verbatim (sorry) but > they are socket command on non-socket and something to do with > Getpeername errors... The other machine has a fresh install of 2.2.6 on > it and it's sendmail takes forever too. Your DNS configuration is incorrect or your nameserver is down or unreachable. You can hit Control-C to bypass the sticking program. It sounds like you're on via dialup, so the nameserver lookups will fail until the link is brought up. You can get around this by adding the machine's name and IP to /etc/hosts, then changing /etc/host.conf to list hosts before bind. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message