Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:04:15 -0700 From: Dave Abouav <dave@transducertech.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available Message-ID: <4887AADF.5080102@transducertech.com> In-Reply-To: <D120C317-6B17-46C2-B823-F30276CCB090@mac.com> References: <4887A1D4.2070404@transducertech.com> <D120C317-6B17-46C2-B823-F30276CCB090@mac.com>
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Our DNS goes through our ISP. The IP addresses of their DNS servers are hard-coded into the server's /etc/rc.conf file. No amount of waiting seems to help. It always just hangs trying to load sshd. Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote: >> I setup a FreeBSD server (v 6.1) for my company as a simple Samba >> server. It works fine. Except once in awhile our access to the >> outside internet goes out (due to our ISP), and when it does the >> FreeBSD server gets hung up, even after rebooted. This happened this >> morning, so I put a console on it, and rebooted it. I saw that it >> gets hung trying to start sshd. No error messages are given. If I hit >> Control-C, to skip loading sshd, then the rest of the boot-up goes >> normally and people can again access the server. Any ideas how I can >> avoid this problem? I'd rather not skip the loading of sshd. I don't >> have any special programs on the server that contact the outside world. > > It's probably doing something which needs a DNS lookup. Do you have a > subnet-local nameserver available, or does simply waiting for 2 > minutes or so for a timeout do the trick? > -- Dave Abouav Product Manager & Software Engineer KWJ Engineering, Transducer Technology Division Phone: (510) 791-0951 Fax: (510) 794-4330 Email: dave@transducertech.com
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