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In a previous message, shegonee@ix.netcom.com said:
> Riddle Me This,
> I have been trying to run named to improve lookup performance.
> I edited the sysconfig file to use the "-b /etc/namedb/named.boot"
> option with named.boot file that was installed. One Freebsd user recommended
> that I put the following entry in the resolv.conf file:
> nameserver      127.0.0.1
> This causes my boot up process to really slow down.
> Specifically, it stalls(or waits) during boot up when it is:
> ifconfig for lo0
> starting mountd
> recover vi sessions
> starting sendmail
> I'm having to hit Ctrl-c at each point to continue with the boot process.
> Can you explain this? Any help would be helpful!
> Thanks
> Kirk :) 

Hmm. What's in your host.conf file? You want to have hosts before bind.
And then make sure you have at least your machine and localhost defined
in it.

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