I have both the hostname, and the smtp server in my hosts file, both of them resolve immediately whether or not the cable is connected.
nachum -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian with Exim4 On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 10:16:04AM +0200, Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > I can't always boot with the network up, but the loopback is up, what > can I do to stop this network delay??? And what exactly is it waiting > for? It should not be a timeout on dns, b/c both entries are in the > hosts file? And why else would exim be trying to access the network? I know that both sendmail and postfix try to find the host name on startup. Putting it in /etc/hosts will help -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
