From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 16:06:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE44E16A432 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:06:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CFF143D49 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:06:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEC85F94; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:06:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72378-07; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:06:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-79-217.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.79.217]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3D45F7B; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:06:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4304B224.5050504@mac.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:07:00 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050801 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Simon Morgan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail stalling during boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:06:59 -0000 Simon Morgan wrote: > When my system boots it freezes for an extremely long time at a certain > point in the boot process. Hitting CTRL-C at this point I'm informed > that the loading of sendmail has been cancelled which obviously indicates > that it's what is responsible. Indeed. > Looking into the issue I've seen a number of people experiencing the same > problem and being told to fix their DNS setup. The machine that sendmail > is running on has an internet routable IP that resolves to a hostname: > >>host 82.71.120.75 > > 75.120.71.82.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer > 82-71-120-75.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. > > but the hostname I have set is "fake" and resolves to nothing: > >>hostname > > naboo.localdomain You really, really want to give your machine a real hostname, which is in the DNS, reverses properly, and has MX records for the domains it handles mail for set up, if you want to run sendmail and do mail correctly. If you are only relaying mail to another smart host which will do all of your relaying for you (commonly your ISP's SMTP server will do so), and you do not need sendmail to do DNS lookups, consider FEATURE(nocanonify). -- -Chuck