From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 02:59:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA19789 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 02:59:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (www.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA19643 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 02:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.165]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:56:29 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.de (malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00529; Fri, 22 May 1998 11:22:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980521155804.00a82b90@midwest.net> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:22:30 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Sendmail...slow boot... Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian , Studded , Stephane Raimbault Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 21-May-98 Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: > You could also change the order from "bind then hosts" to "hosts then bind" > in resolv.conf. This is done in /etc/host.conf Malte > > 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 > >> > >> > > > > > 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/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 22-May-98 Time: 10:26:27 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message