From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 16:19:09 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 F12A237B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (gaff.hhhr.ision.net [195.180.9.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AF743F85 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 16:19:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from gaff.hhhr.ision.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gaff.hhhr.ision.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6PNJ5fD053246 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:19:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net) Received: from localhost (ohoyer@localhost)h6PNJ48Q053243; Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:19:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 01:19:04 +0200 (CEST) From: Olaf Hoyer To: Constantine In-Reply-To: <3F21B49D.3050801@rbcmail.ru> Message-ID: <20030726011501.C53224-100000@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Host name for sendmail. 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: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:19:09 -0000 On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Constantine wrote: > Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD 4.8 box, I run it for my local small home network I > use it as a router. My DSL-modem has a NAT feature, and FreeBSD does not > have any routable ip-address, only the modem does. > > My sendmail always complains about the domain name every time I start my > FreeBSD, and the system is hanging for 2 minutes, until the sendmail > finally starts. What I want to do, is to keep my own sendmail (I use it > as my smtp-server), but I do not want the system to wait 2 minutes until > the sendmail starts. What can I do? > Hi! Well, do the following: in /etc/hosts, enter your domain name. then, edit the file: /etc/mail/service.switch (or the corresponding file location defined in sendmail.cf) with the values : files dns to make sendmail first look in /etc/hosts and then try to resolve via DNS. Alternatively, in sendmail.cf there is the option to specify the own host name in case sendmail cannot determine it automagically. BTW: sendmail wants some FQDN, like cnts.local or something. Missing dots are iritating to sendmail. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer ohoyer@gaff.hhhr.ision.net Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten, ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist. (Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)