Stunnel delaying boot

Question

My stunnel implementation works fine when the network is plugged in but it takes an awful amount of time, which delays the whole boot process, when there is no network connected to the machine.

As extra information:

I'm using "delay=yes"
I'm using an fqdn (e.g: stunnel.mydomain.com) for the connections
Using ubuntu but this also happened with centos5 previously

How can this be avoided or a timeout specified?

edit: doing an strace as suggested by symcbean shows the following (including the last part where it hangs):

[...]
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigreturn(0x11)                      = 0
close(3)                                = 0
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 6039
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7ff9ce0c79d0) = 6046
wait4(-1, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 6046
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
rt_sigreturn(0x11)                      = 6046
write(1, "[Started: /etc/stunnel/stunnel.c"..., 37) = 37
write(1, "stunnel.\n", 9)               = 9
exit_group(0)                           = ?
[...]

stunnel hangs in this line: wait4(-1,

and when i plug in the network cable it continues to show [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 6046

Have you tried doing a packet capture/strace when you start up the daemon on a running system? — symcbean, Sep 17 '12 at 12:43
output added to the original question as there is limit on chars on comments. — Onitlikesonic, Sep 17 '12 at 15:18
correction, stunnel doesn't start at all, left a machine booting for 30+ minutes and nothing — Onitlikesonic, Sep 18 '12 at 14:01

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 11 '12 at 09:45

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It appears this has now been solved with the latest update http://marc.info/?l=stunnel-users&m=134987031808206&w=2

answered Oct 11 '12 at 09:45

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