As a side note: if this is the problem, sendmail will not block
_forever_. It will eventually time out. I don't know what the actual
value is, but it seems like 5 minutes or something, so it could easily
seem like it's frozen.
-Bill
Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> The place where I have come across this is on DNS timeouts. e.g. if you
> have an IP address on an interface that has as its DNS a non reachable
> server (for whatever reason), sendmail will block until it gets an answer
> either way. Do all the PTR records for your IP addresses on the machine in
> question return right away ?
>
> ---Mike
>
> At 02:31 PM 6/18/2001 +0200, Thomas Stratmann wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >have the weird problem that not anyone of sendmail, newaliases nor mailq
> >returns (neither does any one of them return any error message or
> >output). This includes the call of "sendmail -bd -q30m" out of /etc/rc
> >(the same applies if I do this by hand), so I have to hit ^C to continue
> >the boot process. It used to work fine the last time I booted (which
> >means I did not see any errors, and sendmail was up) although I did not
> >change any of my configuration in the mean time.
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