From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 15:43:07 2003 Return-Path: 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 C06EA37B401 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:43:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0352843FAF for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:43:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff+sender+e8ec28@jrpenn.demon.co.uk) Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk ([194.222.241.254]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 19G4xl-0003uF-0Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:43:05 +0100 Received: from jrpenn.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4EMgNSI005115 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:43:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jeff+sender+e8ec28@jrpenn.demon.co.uk) Received: by jrpenn.demon.co.uk (tmda-inject, from uid 1001); Wed, 14 May 2003 23:42:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 23:42:18 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030514224218.GA5084@jrpenn.demon.co.uk> References: <72F740A8-8384-11D7-A664-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org> <002301c31826$f347d1e0$15b55042@vizion2000.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002301c31826$f347d1e0$15b55042@vizion2000.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i From: Jeff Penn Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.76 (Middleground) Subject: Re: Long time - sendmail on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 22:43:08 -0000 On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 06:36:32PM -0700, vizion communication wrote: > Still same problem > > Proper entries were in /etc/hosts > > > On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 04:15 PM, vizion communication wrote: > > > > > > On booting system takes for ever before on ntpdate (followed by > > > portmap) and sendmail (followed by sendmail-clientmailqueue) > > > > > > The system is also the dnsserver for this network so I am > > > wondering if that could have anything to do with it. > > > > This usually happens when your DNS is broken, i.e., your machine is > > named something that doesn't exist. I had the same problem with bind & sendmail on a dialup workstation (no network card). I eventually solved the problem by removing 'options INET6' from my kernel. Jeff