Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 15:53:21 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: amengual@sadeya.cesca.es (Carlos Amengual) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Subject: Re: Slow booting Message-ID: <199606301953.PAA09339@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <31D57FE3.4F7C@sadeya.cesca.es> from Carlos Amengual at "Jun 29, 96 07:11:31 pm"
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Carlos Amengual wrote... > Jordyn A. Buchanan wrote: > > > > Hello: > > > > One of our machines is stalling as it boots. Not stalling, really but > > pausing for about five minutes before moving on. Here's what I see: > > [... deleted...] I think you'll find that this is due to name resolution. If these machines are configured to use DNS before '/etc/hosts', or if they are trying to resolve a name not in '/etc/hosts' when the reverse is true, and you do not have a full-time Internet connection, the name resolution will fail, and your boot process will stall until the resolver times out. I encountered this problem when I first configured a caching-only nameserver on my machine. Going through '/etc/sysconfig' and replacing all the names in route and ifconfig lines with IP addresses solved it for me. oJohn -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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