From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 18 5:46:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBDA837B403 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 05:46:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5ICh8s10173; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:43:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B2DF7EE.BEBCD693@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:45:34 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Thomas Stratmann , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail does not return References: <4.2.2.20010618083131.02c109d0@192.168.0.12> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As a side note: if this is the problem, sendmail will not block _forever_. It will eventually time out. I don't know what the actual value is, but it seems like 5 minutes or something, so it could easily seem like it's frozen. -Bill Mike Tancsa wrote: > > The place where I have come across this is on DNS timeouts. e.g. if you > have an IP address on an interface that has as its DNS a non reachable > server (for whatever reason), sendmail will block until it gets an answer > either way. Do all the PTR records for your IP addresses on the machine in > question return right away ? > > ---Mike > > At 02:31 PM 6/18/2001 +0200, Thomas Stratmann wrote: > >Hi everyone, > > > >have the weird problem that not anyone of sendmail, newaliases nor mailq > >returns (neither does any one of them return any error message or > >output). This includes the call of "sendmail -bd -q30m" out of /etc/rc > >(the same applies if I do this by hand), so I have to hit ^C to continue > >the boot process. It used to work fine the last time I booted (which > >means I did not see any errors, and sendmail was up) although I did not > >change any of my configuration in the mean time. -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message