Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:58:04 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: Stephane Raimbault <segr@segr.ml.org>, Studded <Studded@san.rr.com> Cc: Brian <asura@xs3.dyn.ml.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail...slow boot... Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980521155804.00a82b90@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980521092933.1847A-100000@segr.ml.org> References: <3563E641.2790B707@san.rr.com>
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You could also change the order from "bind then hosts" to "hosts then bind" in resolv.conf. Then be sure to tell sendmail to look at the host file(sendmail.cf?) and edit /etc/hosts. # default character set #O DefaultCharSet=iso-8859-1 # service switch file (ignored on Solaris, Ultrix, OSF/1, others) #O ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/service.switch # hosts file (normally /etc/hosts) O HostsFile=/etc/hosts # dialup line delay on connection failure #O DialDelay=10s At 09:31 AM 5/21/98 +0000, Stephane Raimbault wrote: >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 > > <smaller>The beer is too cold, the daiquiris too fruitful, there's no place like home! Jimmy Buffett "The weather is here, Wish you were beautiful" Jon Lyons parrothd@midwest.net 87 HONDA VFR700 http://cplkagan.dyn.ml.org/</smaller>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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