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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!news2.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: route add on boot Date: 27 May 1996 20:25:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4od33r$i9k@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1996May26.024631.17673@cs.mun.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E amigus@cs.mun.ca (Adam Migus) wrote: > add host (hostname): gateway localhost: File Exists > add net 224.0.0.0: gateway (hostname) This one is obsolete, that's why: > writing to routing socket: File Exists > Then it starts routed and everything is fine. Does anyone know why this > happened and how to fix it, It has been like it ever since then and I > have rebooted several times.... Use only numerical IP addresses this early in the game, no host names. For the default name resolution order (DNS first, /etc/hosts second), the routing to the nameserver is not yet established, so the boot process waits until DNS times out, and then falls back to /etc/hosts. -- 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. ;-)