Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:36:15 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Cc: h.wickhorst@elmshorn.netsurf.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user PPP and BIND Message-ID: <199706301236.HAA07452@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970629122823.1100G-100000@cedb> from Dan Busarow at "Jun 29, 97 12:30:02 pm"
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In a previous message, Dan Busarow said:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Henning Wickhorst wrote:
> > When booting, the system 'hangs' for a long time after the network
> > devices have been configured. It not really hangs, it tries to resolv
> > the addresses of the static routes. (route thor.wnet localhost etc.)
>
> You should be using numeric addresses instead of host names
> in your route commands. Obviously names will work once
> named is running but IP addresses will always work.
Unfortunately in 2.2.2 (and 2.2.1?) if you have loopback in
router_args (or something) does this:
${hostname} localhost
It did the same thing for me. I took it out as it gave little utility,
in a home ppp setup.
Paul.
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