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#! rnews 1379 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!beta.nedernet.nl!usenet From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: route add on boot Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 19:53:54 +0200 Organization: Systemics Ltd. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <31AB3DB2.63DABEB6@systemics.com> References: <1996May26.024631.17673@cs.mun.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: mainstreet.support.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) X-Forwarded: by - (DeleGate2.8.31) Adam Migus wrote: > > Recently i rebooted my machine and for the first time ever i noticed a > long delay when /etc/netstart adds static routes. > At the part where it adds the multicast route and loopback i get the > following errors: > > add host (hostname): gateway localhost: File Exists > add net 224.0.0.0: gateway (hostname) > writing to routing socket: File Exists If you are running as a nameserver (ie running named), try replacing all hostnames (including localhost) with their IP addresses in /etc/sysconfig. Gary -- pub 1024/C001D00D 1996/01/22 Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com> Key fingerprint = 0C FB 60 61 4D 3B 24 7D 1C 89 1D BE 1F EE 09 06