From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 16 22:41:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382E3106568E for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout025.mac.com (asmtpout025.mac.com [17.148.16.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245B88FC64 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:41:46 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from macbook-pro.lan.xcllnt.net (mail.xcllnt.net [75.101.29.67]) by asmtp025.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KOH00CBRR1MJI30@asmtp025.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:41:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Marcel Moolenaar In-reply-to: Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:41:45 -0700 Message-id: <90E06EA7-4D27-411C-962F-BBCB6D6A13C6@mac.com> References: To: Stefan Bethke X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1074) Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: rc(8) regression. What's the story? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:41:47 -0000 On Aug 16, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Stefan Bethke wrote: > At this point, /etc/rc.d/netif is finished. I presume dhclient has been started at this time. > >> bge1: link state changed to DOWN >> Mounting NFS file systems:mount_nfs: nfs: hostname nor servname >> provided, or not known >> . >> bge0: link state changed to UP > > Only now is the interface capable of forwarding packets. Which means that dhclient is only now able to obtain a network address. > >> Setting date via ntp. >> Error : hostname nor servname provided, or not known >> 16 Aug 14:05:51 ntpdate[644]: can't find host time.lan.xcllnt.net > > Is this a timeout, or did netif not configure all the interfaces/ > routes? Interfaces/routes have not been configured yet, because dhclient isn't finished yet. >> This is an obvious regression and I don't see that this is being >> addressed. Am I mistaken? > > Maybe not everyone is seeing this? I certainly have no problems > bringing up interfaces in time for ntpdate to work, or nfs mounts to > succeed. I don't see it on all machines, even though they use DHCP. I think the problem relates to how long it takes for the (primary) interface to become up. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com