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From: "Daniel Fairs" <d.fairs@psychmed.co.uk>
To: "Klaus Herrmann" <klaus.herrmann@gmx.net>,
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Subject: RE: isdn and sendmail problems after upgrade
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:23:39 +0100
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Well, in answer to the first point, sendmail hangs for aaages if it can't
look up the host it's on. Make sure your DNS is configured and working.

I've no experience of the latter, but failing DNS lookups tend to cause
programs to appear to hang for ages...

Cheers,
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Klaus Herrmann
> Sent: 03 October 2001 17:20
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: isdn and sendmail problems after upgrade
>
>
> Hi!
>
> i upgraded my FreeBSD today from 4.3-stable (as of may or so) to
> 4.4-stable. now i experiance this:
> (1) sendmail doesn't start. it says nothing and hangs. i regenerated the
> config file in /etc/mail, but that didn't help. any ideas by now? if
> not, please tell me what data i should post...
>
> (2) isdn: isdn4bsd does still/again work, BUT: after i do the ifconfig
> isp0 up nothing happens for ca. 3-5 minutes. then i get a message like
> "isdn daemon started" (but isdnd definetly starts at boot time), and
> after that i4b starts the acutal dialing.
> i experiance this whenever i do ifconfig isp0 up, not only once after
> booting :-(
>
> both are pretty serious problems for me. please help!
>
> regards and thanks in advance,
> 	Klaus
>
>
>


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