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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@eros.library.csusb.edu>
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Subject: route problem with 1104-SNAP
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<<On Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:33:55 -0800 (PST), "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@eros.library.csusb.edu> said:

> Hi folks..
> I'm having a problem with a FreeBSD 2.1.0-951104-SNAP system.  When the
> machine boots, it hangs when it adds the default route (as when you
> define a defaultrouter in /etc/sysconfig).  If you wait long enough,
> it will eventually continue and everything is fine.  This seems to be
> related to DNS, because if I delete /etc/resolv.conf it comes up fine
> without hanging at all.

It is incorrect to specify a hostname as the default router.  Use an
IP address.

-GAWollman

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