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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
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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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