Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:49:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: flaq@synwork.com (Mike) Cc: gism@isot.isot.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Delay during Boot Message-ID: <199608080149.UAA03578@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960806164324.15133B-100000@synwork.com> from "Mike" at Aug 6, 96 04:44:32 pm
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> > > I'm getting very long delay on <multibyte.com> (several minutes each line) > > during boot while displaying the following lines: > > ep0:flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500 > > inet 206.24.68.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 206.24.68.255 > > ether 00:a0:24:12:c2:3c > > lo0:......... > > add net default: gateway isot.isot.com > > > > After finish booting, I can ping anyone, but also delays long time before > > the first ping. > > > > Also, nslookup does not work beyond the local network. > > > > Any ideas I could try? > > What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? You may want to add any hosts > refered to in /etc/sysconfig to /etc/hosts to speed up any delays during > the boot process. That will not help; you have to twiddle /etc/host.conf to search host file first. This is standard on all my boxes because if I choose to wire in an address, there must be a darn good reason :-) I have seen "long delays" when the nameserver is not on the same subnet and therefore any name lookups before the default route is added get messy. ... JG
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