Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:23:05 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: Raul Zighelboim <mango@communique.net>, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: loopback and multicast messed up on /etc/sysconfig ? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951213222034.14378A-100000@cappuccino.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199512132130.WAA22846@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, J Wunsch wrote:
> As Raul Zighelboim wrote:
> >
> > # route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}"
> > # route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
> >
> > If I uncomment this line in sysconfig, the system will not boot.
> > (attaching a monitor/keyboard to the pc will allowed me to continue the
> > boot process by typing <ctrl>-C, but no multicast nor loopback oute will
> > exist.
>
> Are you using /etc/resolv.conf? Does your nameserver respond to the
> reverse query for 224.0.0.0? Did you wait 45 seconds for the DNS
> request timing out?
>
I've been silently a victim of this for a long time. I have a private, 2
machine network, with one machine doing a nameserver, the other
resolver. Could you suggest a line for the nameserver that would
eliminate this? I'd really appreciate it.
I _never_ realized it might be a multicast thing ....
> --
> cheers, J"org
>
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>
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