From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 26 17:08:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08547 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:08:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08488 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA25995; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:08:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:08:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: brian@worldcontrol.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp slow to start? In-Reply-To: <19980926165312.A1769@top.worldcontrol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Sep 1998 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote: # On 0, Steve Price wrote: # > Anyone know why it sometimes takes user-mode PPP in the neighborhood # > of a couple of minutes to startup? As root I type 'ppp' and I get the # > 'Working in interactive mode' message almost immediately and then it # > just sits there for what seems like a very long time. It finally times # > out and works but I'd really like to get rid of the delay if I could. # # If you are running a named server it's # # 'Cuz user-mode PPP does some sort of operation on startup that # accesses your named daemon. Since the PPP session isn't up, named # hangs and eventually times out. After the timeout PPP continues # on its way. Yes, you're right. I moved hosts before bind in /etc/host.conf and the problem seems to be cured. Thanks, Steve # -- # Brian Litzinger # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message