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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sloooooow booting
Date: 10 Jan 1996 00:29:55 GMT
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cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (Cy Schubert - BCSC Open Systems Group) writes:

[route add 224.0.0.0]

>   The only solution I've been able to come up
> with so far is to replace the hostnames in the route_* statements in the
> /etc/sysconfig script with dotted decimal IP addresses.  You lose some
> flexability in changing IP addresses when you need to, but it does work.
> 
> Maybe someone has a better solution to this.

I'm mirroring MCAST.NET and 224.IN-ADDR.ARPA, but i'm not claiming
this the _better_ solution. :-)

-- 
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. ;-)