Date: Tue, 12 Dec 95 07:23:56 CST From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, neal@jennifer.pernet.net Subject: Re: Slow boot Message-ID: <9512121323.AA18097@merak.med.ge.com>
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> > OK, I've read the mailing list and newsgroup archives, and have seen this > question asked, but never answered: > > We just recently installed NIS client functions on one of our machines at > kernel level 2.1.0. Now, when it boots, it pauses for as long as 5 > minutes when adding routes(loopback and default gateway). If I take nis > out of sysconfig, it doesn't pause. Is this just something really stupid > that I'm overlooking? Any help is appreciated. > > -- > Neal Rigney sysadmin, PERnet Communications, (409)729-4638 > neal@mail.pernet.net > My opinions are mine, damnit! PERnet can't have them! > > Neal, I see this too. I use NIS also and I've traced it down to the route add that is done for the multicast address. I think the system is trying to resolve the $hostname on the "route add ..." with NIS which has not been bound yet. So the system pauses while the NIS request times out. I know my host.conf file says to use hosts before NIS but that doesn't seem to matter. Is there a bug in gethostbyname that it ignores the host.conf order? Anyone else have any ideas for Neal and me? Derek Laufenberg laufen@sol.med.ge.com
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