From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 21 08:30:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24868 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:30:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from segr.ml.org (cs111809-a.cgno1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.10.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA24835 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 08:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from segr@segr.ml.org) Received: from localhost (segr@localhost) by segr.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA01852; Thu, 21 May 1998 09:31:13 GMT (envelope-from segr@segr.ml.org) Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:31:12 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephane Raimbault To: Studded cc: Brian , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail...slow boot... In-Reply-To: <3563E641.2790B707@san.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Check your nameservers (/etc/resolv.conf) recently my ISP changed my DNS numbers without letting me know. The symptoms were, incredibly long boot times with sendmail seeming to hang. Long time before I would get a telnet prompt from remote location. Pine seem to be freezing on me it was so slow. Hope this helps, Stephane R. On Thu, 21 May 1998, Studded wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > > I may have not correctly posted my last question, so I ask again. > > I remember reading somewhere that some things cause the system to > > take longer to boot...ie: sendmail takes a long time to load, etc. > > It looks to me like you're trying to start things that require a > network connection before you have one established. > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud designer and maintainer of one of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message