From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 01:03:34 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 02E0137B404 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 01:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postit.adam.com.au (postit.adam.com.au [203.2.124.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C10443F93 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 01:03:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by postit.adam.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h3A83Ghh008224 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:33:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (qmail 94569 invoked from network); 10 Apr 2003 07:09:40 -0000 Received: from 202-6-144-239.ip.adam.com.au (HELO adam.com.au) (202.6.144.239) by eden.adam.com.au with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 10 Apr 2003 07:09:40 -0000 Message-ID: <3E9518CF.6090302@adam.com.au> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:40:07 +0930 From: Brian Astill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <20030404113740.T20523@gothmog> <1049529621.3e8e8d153e24f@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> <20030409234339.GC33664@gothmog.gr> <3E94C288.5070707@adam.com.au> <20030410065818.GA71936@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail woes 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: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:03:34 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: >>I waited a L O N G time during boot and eventually this sequence occurred: >> >>Starting standard daemons: inetd cron printer sshd usbd sendmail >>sendmail-clientmqueue. >> >>The boot then continued normally to the login prompt. >> > >That's a classic symptom of DNS problems. Your sendmail installation >is probably perfectly good in itself, but sendmail is blocking trying >to resolve the FQDN of the host via the DNS, and it's the DNS that you >need to concentrate on fixing. Note: it's got to be able to use the >DNS to do those lookups, or it won't be much use for the rest of the >internet to communicate with. There should be more information about >exactly what lookups are failing in /var/log/maillog. > Agreed completely - trouble is I can find nothing wrong with /etc/hosts or rc.conf that would explain the problem so I can fix it. Sadly, all was OK until I upgraded from 4.8PR to 4.8RC, which suggests that upgrading is the issue. I will do as you say and look at maillog. Have to reboot into FBSD to do that. Here I go ... Bye! -- Brian