From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 14:20:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA06376 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 14:20:33 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA06371 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 14:20:29 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA04849; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:14:53 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511072214.WAA04849@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: route problem with 1104-SNAP To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 22:14:53 +0000 () Cc: nwestfal@eros.library.csusb.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9511072003.AA19094@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Nov 7, 95 03:03:26 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1135 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Garrett A. Wollman stands accused of saying: > > 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. Or list hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf, and make sure your /etc/hosts file contains the relevant bootstrapping information. This is a particularly good thing to do if your nameserver is a long way away. > -GAWollman -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[