Slow boot when not plugged into network

[Nils Vogels]

Duane Winner wrote:

>Does anybody know of a workaround for this?
>
>When I'm not connected to my ethernet network, it takes an extra 90
>seconds to boot my FreeBSD laptop, as it hangs on this boot message
>before timing out:
>
>"Doing initial network setup: hostname"
>
>I'm guessing it has something to do with DNS lookup and can't reach the
>server(s), but I'm not sure.
>  
>
My best guess is indeed also a DNS lookup which goes into nothingness ;-)

You should be able to avoid the DNS query if you have the hostname it is 
trying to lookup (such as your FQDN) in your /etc/hosts file.

HTH & HAND,

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