From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Aug 7 18:51:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA23824 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23819 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 18:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id UAA03578; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:49:12 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199608080149.UAA03578@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Long Delay during Boot To: flaq@synwork.com (Mike) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:49:12 -0500 (CDT) Cc: gism@isot.isot.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Mike" at Aug 6, 96 04:44:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I'm getting very long delay on (several minutes each line) > > during boot while displaying the following lines: > > ep0:flags=863 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