From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 16 16:12:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA01038 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:12:16 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA01026 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:12:14 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA14535; Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:17:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 15:17:18 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9502162017.AA14535@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: jg@euronet.nl (Jan_Guldemond) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Hang up In-Reply-To: <199502160915.KAA29751@mail.euronet.nl> References: <199502160915.KAA29751@mail.euronet.nl> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < When booting BSD, /etc/netstart executes: > route add 224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface $hostname > Does anyone know what this route add does. I don't understand what the > 224.0.0.0 stands for... This sets the default interface for outgoing multicast packets. I hope to have code in 2.1 which will obviate the need for most people to do this. Having a separate route is important for recent values of -current to ensure that there are no cloned routes to multicast destinations. > And most important: When executing this statemant > the system hangs for about 60-70 seconds. Nameserver timeout. Put `hosts' first in your /etc/host.conf file, and make sure that your hostname is listed in /etc/hosts. Or do what I do, and always use numeric IP addresses in /etc/netstart (preferable). (A system should be able to run without a /etc/hosts even existing.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant