Hello Craig, Ray, jeff and list > >Hi folks, > >Whether I use my Bering floppy or my really cool, new bootable Bering CD > >(yeehaw!), I get this message on boot-up- Starting system log daemon: > >syslogd and it seems to take a really long time to get beyond it. Is > >that "normal" for Bering??? I'd say it takes, maybe, 2 or 3 minutes to > >get beyond that. What do you think? Thanks! > > It means the system has a problem with DNS resolution. DNS requests time > out after 3 minutes. I forget now what DNS thingie syslog is doing on > startup, but it is some sort of reverse lookup, possibly of the host's own > IP address --- you can tell by checking your logs to see what is reported > with an IP address instead of FQN. > > To eliminate the delay, fix the DNS problem. (I'm calling it DNS, but > that's not really correct; it's a resolver problem, which can be fixed by a > suitable /etc/hosts file as well as by getting DNS working.) As ray stated This is in effect a timeout the syslog tries to resolve the host name it is running on at startup. You probably have a non official name to your firewall, so dnscache cannot resolve the name. As soon as you have an correct host entry in /etc/host the problem is solved. ( the fqdn of your firewall is probably different from firewall.private.network , as is mine ;) ) > Regards Eric Wolzak member of the berign crew
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