From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 19 18:41:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA09548 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 18:41:26 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA09527 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 18:41:17 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA21755; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:06:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506200136.LAA21755@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Long pauses at startup To: aturetta@stylo.italia.com (Angelo Turetta) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 11:06:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506191910.VAA02882@unix.stylo.italia.com> from "Angelo Turetta" at Jun 19, 95 05:04:49 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1107 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Angelo Turetta stands accused of saying: > > What can it be the problem with my 2.0.5-RELEASE system, if I have to > wait for about one minute before the route_multicast line of sysconfig > is executed, and about 3.5 minutes for route_localhost ? > > I have set host.conf to look first at hosts file, then DNS, and set > entries for localhost & myhost.mydomain is /etc/hosts. > This host is the DNS primary (and only) server for my subnet, so I > think the hosts stuff is right: at startup named is not still running. This is your problem; you're timing out on nameserver lookups. This is something that really annoys me about the standard 2.0.5 distribution, but I couldn't see a clean way around it. > Angelo Turetta. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[