Don't know if this is likely but since your dealing with a DNS problem, check that your DNS server isnt trying to do any reverse lookups on itself. I had a similar problem where it would take a few minutes to establish a connection to the pc because it was doing reverse lookups. I think this is caused by (x)inetd rather than sendmail/bind.
HTH David On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 18:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:33:30PM +0100, Chris Dickson wrote: > > Hi all, when I boot my linux pc it's goes along quite smoothly until it > > tries to start sendmail, which takes ages. Is this supposed to take a long > > time or is it looking for something that isn't there or something which I > > can fix? (it is an old P166 but everything else chuggs along happily at > > boot). > > FX: <finger in wind> > It's a DNS problem. Sendmail needs to know about DNS. at least, it needs to > know about the box it's running on. > > I suggest that in /etc/hosts on the box you make sure you have a fully > qualified domain name for the host. > > ie > 192.168.1.1 thisbox.domain.co.uk thisbox > > Other than that, it's time for the magic chicken bones over your zone files :-) > > Andrew > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk > http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
