Hi Tom,

the script is usually quite fast when it can reach the DNS servers.

If it can’t it is waiting quite long and runs into a timeout.

Is there a reason why it cannot reach the DNS servers? It should be able to or you should not have functioning DNS.

-Michael

> On 12 Dec 2018, at 15:31, Tom Rymes <trymes(a)rymes.com> wrote:
> 
> Last night we were fighting with a router that had a non-functioning red interface. It ended up being a misconfiguration on our part, but while we were troubleshooting, we routinely had to wait for very long periods as unbound failed to contact the defined name servers. 
> 
> Is there a way to make the startup script time out more quickly when things are not functioning?
> 
> Tom