Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01734; Wed, 13 Dec 95 19:11:17 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19590; Wed, 13 Dec 95 19:11:17 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA11588; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 19:10:29 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA27559 Wed, 13 Dec 1995 13:42:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA27145 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 13:36:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA26923 Wed, 13 Dec 1995 13:35:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA08492; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:35:45 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA19186; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:35:44 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA22846; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:30:32 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512132130.WAA22846@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: loopback and multicast messed up on /etc/sysconfig ? To: mango@communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:30:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, questions@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Raul Zighelboim" at Dec 13, 95 00:15:24 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Raul Zighelboim wrote: > > # route_multicast="224.0.0.0 -netmask 0xf0000000 -interface ${hostname}" > # route_loopback="${hostname} localhost" > > If I uncomment this line in sysconfig, the system will not boot. > (attaching a monitor/keyboard to the pc will allowed me to continue the > boot process by typing -C, but no multicast nor loopback oute will > exist. Are you using /etc/resolv.conf? Does your nameserver respond to the reverse query for 224.0.0.0? Did you wait 45 seconds for the DNS request timing out? -- 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. ;-)