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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Sendmail does bogus name lookups
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In-Reply-To: Richard Tobin's message of Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:55:37 GMT
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> I have a problem with sendmail hanging at boot time if my home network
> is not connected to the outside world.

To partly answer my own question, I discovered that this is something
to do with the difference between getipnodebyname/inet6 and
gethostbyname/inet4.  If I build a kernel without INET6, the problem
goes away.  For now, that's a perfectly adequate solution.

-- Richard


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