Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 21:43:13 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike <flaq@synwork.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: gism@isot.isot.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Delay during Boot Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960807214141.20964A-100000@synwork.com> In-Reply-To: <199608080149.UAA03578@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
This is true. I didn't think to suggest that to him. Shouldn't he still
add hosts to /etc/hosts?
Mike
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