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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "route add" long pause
Date: 12 May 1996 18:49:27 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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Dean Roth <dean@myp.com> wrote:
> During boot the command "route add ${hostname} localhost" pauses
> the system for a long time, then apparently times out and boot
> continues. Why?
Since named is not yet running. Anyway, don't bother, replace
${hostname} and localhost by numeric addresses, and you should be
going. (That's also what the installation program does in recent
systems.)
--
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. ;-)