system hangs on boot up if no internet available

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote:
> I setup a FreeBSD server (v 6.1) for my company as a simple Samba  
> server. It works fine. Except once in awhile our access to the  
> outside internet goes out (due to our ISP), and when it does the  
> FreeBSD server gets hung up, even after rebooted. This happened this  
> morning, so I put a console on it, and rebooted it. I saw that it  
> gets hung trying to start sshd. No error messages are given. If I  
> hit Control-C, to skip loading sshd, then the rest of the boot-up  
> goes normally and people can again access the server. Any ideas how  
> I can avoid this problem? I'd rather not skip the loading of sshd. I  
> don't have any special programs on the server that contact the  
> outside world.

It's probably doing something which needs a DNS lookup.  Do you have a  
subnet-local nameserver available, or does simply waiting for 2  
minutes or so for a timeout do the trick?

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-Chuck