Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:41:45 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rc(8) regression. What's the story? Message-ID: <90E06EA7-4D27-411C-962F-BBCB6D6A13C6@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <E04E14BF-8749-47CF-9D47-B5D5AD6A0B6E@lassitu.de> References: <F61821DF-7187-4C00-A691-0E4D88E83D4F@mac.com> <E04E14BF-8749-47CF-9D47-B5D5AD6A0B6E@lassitu.de>
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On Aug 16, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Stefan Bethke wrote: > At this point, /etc/rc.d/netif is finished. I presume dhclient has been started at this time. > >> bge1: link state changed to DOWN >> Mounting NFS file systems:mount_nfs: nfs: hostname nor servname >> provided, or not known >> . >> bge0: link state changed to UP > > Only now is the interface capable of forwarding packets. Which means that dhclient is only now able to obtain a network address. > >> Setting date via ntp. >> Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known >> 16 Aug 14:05:51 ntpdate[644]: can't find host time.lan.xcllnt.net > > Is this a timeout, or did netif not configure all the interfaces/ > routes? Interfaces/routes have not been configured yet, because dhclient isn't finished yet. >> This is an obvious regression and I don't see that this is being >> addressed. Am I mistaken? > > Maybe not everyone is seeing this? I certainly have no problems > bringing up interfaces in time for ntpdate to work, or nfs mounts to > succeed. I don't see it on all machines, even though they use DHCP. I think the problem relates to how long it takes for the (primary) interface to become up. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com
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