From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 30 13:20:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13540 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13525 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA09339; Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:53:21 -0400 Message-Id: <199606301953.PAA09339@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Slow booting To: amengual@sadeya.cesca.es (Carlos Amengual) Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:53:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <31D57FE3.4F7C@sadeya.cesca.es> from Carlos Amengual at "Jun 29, 96 07:11:31 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Carlos Amengual wrote... > Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote: > > > > Hello: > > > > One of our machines is stalling as it boots. Not stalling, really but > > pausing for about five minutes before moving on. Here's what I see: > > [... deleted...] I think you'll find that this is due to name resolution. If these machines are configured to use DNS before '/etc/hosts', or if they are trying to resolve a name not in '/etc/hosts' when the reverse is true, and you do not have a full-time Internet connection, the name resolution will fail, and your boot process will stall until the resolver times out. I encountered this problem when I first configured a caching-only nameserver on my machine. Going through '/etc/sysconfig' and replacing all the names in route and ifconfig lines with IP addresses solved it for me. oJohn -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key