At 2:49 Uhr -0400 05.04.2000, JK wrote:

>Yes, I've had the same trouble. It goes away when I shut down my firewall
>server on the same network. 

This looks like a DNS problem: Something tries to do a reverse lookup 
(gethostbyaddr()) and this takes that long that a timeout occurs of your Firewall is 
shut down.

>I think the TCP/IP on some 8.6 and eariler
>macs is not *ready* in time for the mounting of netatalk volume at boot.

We have Macs of all flavours sitting here and (because our users are a bit unflexible) 
we pre-mount them the volumes they need. From OS8 upwards to OS9. Works fine.

>Try to force different appletalk network addresses. I've had some luck
>with this. Recently I fixxed this by switching to a classC from a classA.

Eh, you talk about IP and AppleTalk addressing in the same breath?

:wq! PoC


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