The DNS is a local machine on my network that acts NAT.
My resolv.conf:
search
nameserver 192.168.10.200
My hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Adams
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 3:30 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux slooooow!
On Tue, 07 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> >%_Hi!
>
> Usually, Sendmail is really slow to start when there is a DNS problem.
> you may check your /etc/hosts file or your DNS configuration in order to
see if
> your hostname is well defined.
>
> Fred
>
> Kevin Fife wrote:
>
> > I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on a 450 Pentium-II computer. Everything
> > worked fine. I installed a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter so that I could
share
> > an optical drive on my network. When I started the machine the first
time
> > after installing the card, linux started going very slow when starting
> > sendmail. Each service afterwards takes about 5 minutes each! I then
shut
> > down the computer and ripped out that card (which did work fine in
another
> > computer). After restarting the machine, linux still acts the same.
> >
> > I start at the GUI login normally, but it would not come up. So I
pressed
> > Alt-F2 to login as root. I was able to 'startx' and get to the GUI login
and
> > eventually to KDE. The shell program works normally, but Netscape takes
> > about 5 minutes to start.
No nameserver(s) defined in /etc/resolv.conf or they are unreachable,
(no route) or you have defined localhost as your computer name in
/etc/hosts, localhost should be somelike;
127.0.0.1 localhost
> > What has happened??
> >
> > kevin
>
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> Frederic PLE
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Regards Richard
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