VERY Slow to start up when no network

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 08 June 2007, Chanchao wrote:
> Does anyone else get this?
>
> When no network connection is available, for example because I'm still
> set to the company LAN but starting up at home to later join my home
> wireless network, then the startup takes AGES.

Most likely you are waiting for DNS lookups for various things.   

For one, usually there is a function in if-up.d   for  ntpdate  to go out and 
get the current time.  It is there at  /etc/if-up.d/ntpdate.

There are probably other things wanting to get to the network as well.