From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 30 05:36:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA22401 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA22395 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id HAA07452; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:36:15 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199706301236.HAA07452@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: user PPP and BIND To: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:36:15 -0500 (CDT) Cc: h.wickhorst@elmshorn.netsurf.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Dan Busarow at "Jun 29, 97 12:30:02 pm" X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Change is inevitable, except from a vending maching.