Re: NIC

From: Menno (flexor_at_wanadoo.nl)
Date: 11/18/04 

Date: 18 Nov 2004 08:35:31 -0800

Slor <slor@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<Xns95A2A98FC6971emuslor@130.133.1.4>...
>
> I have a somewhat related question (maybe), and consider me fairly new
> to AIX... My network setup seems great - that is until I do something
> like attempting to boot the machine without being connected to the
> network. This causes my boot time to increase about 5 minutes in the
> machine startup as well as another 5 minutes in the environment startup.
> My best, though somewhat uneducated guess, is that the machine tries to
> contact the configured DNS server at various times during initialization
> and that there is a very long timeout associated with communication
> failures. Anyway, I'm more of an hobbyist with my AIX machine, and I
> don't always boot connected to the outside world, so I was wondering if
> there is any simple configuration change I can make to prevent this
> (that is, without disabling the networking and handcuffing myself when I
> AM connected to the outside world).
>
> thanks

If your guess is correct, you should try and find out which servers
you are trying to access, and add those to your local hostfile. Then,
you should check the file /etc/netsvc.conf for a line that says
"hosts=". If the file doesn't exist, create it with the single line:

hosts=local,bind

This will make AIX look first in /etc/hosts, and only if it doesn't
find the host there will it go on to the DNS server. If you don't need
DNS at all on the AIX box, make the line "hosts=local" and AIX will
not use DNS at all, except with nslookup and other DNS-aware programs.

Cheers,
Menno

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