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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: boot delay with 2.1.5R Date: 28 Sep 1996 19:38:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <52jurv$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3249623d.144875677@news.scruz.net> 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 tom@oliverdesign.com (Thomas B. Fox) wrote: > ep0:flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>mtu 1500 > inet 205.179.167.60 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 205.179.167.63 > ether 00:a0:24:e2:60:54 > > it hangs after this message for maybe 4 minutes then proceeds to the > lo0 stuff which goes just fine. Use only numeric IP addresses, not names, in /etc/sysconfig. It tries to lookup the name via the DNS (and eventually falls back to /etc/hosts after a timeout), but DNS is not yet available due to some missing routing information. -- 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. ;-)