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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sloooooow booting
Date: 8 Jan 1996 13:02:13 GMT
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delpi@vivid.net (David M. Davis) writes:
> Since installing PPP, my FreeBsd Machine takes forever to boot.  All
> seems to go well until we reach lo0.  After lo0 returns thaere is
> about a 1 minute wait and then the tun0: device appears.  This is
> followed by add net very quickly.  Now we have about a 5 minute wait
> for the boot process to continue.

This is the add route 224.0.0.0 thingie.  (Some people claim that it's
bogus anyway, but i don't have no clues about MCAST at all.)  The
route command causes a request to your name server which is certainly
not yet reachable, so it waits until the DNS query times out.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)