How about having it
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 hongkong.rdc-home.org hongkong iron saTan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:25 PM Subject: RE: [scottish] Slow Boot > I just tried that and it fixed sendmail but now lpd (I am sharing 2 printers > on a Win2K box) isn't working. it wants the host file to read > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > where I have changed it to > > 192.168.1.1 hongkong.rdc-home.org hongkong > > Any ideas? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 October 2001 18:44 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [scottish] Slow Boot > > > 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
