From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 17 16:08:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA08615 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 16:08:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA08574 for ; Sun, 17 Dec 1995 16:08:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.1/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id MAA19842 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:16:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01636; Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:11:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199512122011.NAA01636@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Slow boot To: neal@jennifer.pernet.net (Neal Rigney) Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:11:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Neal Rigney" at Dec 11, 95 09:47:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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. The NIS gethostbyname is attempting to fully qualify the domain name, which means it wants to contact your local resolver. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.