From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 22 23:37:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gray.westgate.gr (gray.westgate.gr [212.205.119.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E6B37B4C5 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2000 23:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by gray.westgate.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9N6bmE51973; Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:37:48 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:37:48 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Devon Young Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP Message-ID: <20001023093748.C317@gray.westgate.gr> References: <20001023062046.5347.qmail@web4705.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001023062046.5347.qmail@web4705.mail.yahoo.com>; from foreignshores@yahoo.com on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:20:46PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:20:46PM -0700, Devon Young wrote: > I can't connect to any news groups or anything, so this is the only > address I figure I could get some help from. I successfully installed > FreeBSD on my laptop, BUT, when it boots up, it freezes when it starts > up the sendmail daemon. Is there a way to avoid this? I'm familiar > with Linux, but I'm new to BSD. Please help. I'm desperate. This is usually a problem with your DNS setup. If sendmail cannot find your hostname, it will try to resolve it through DNS and timeout after a few seconds. The solution is to fix your DNS setup ;-) - giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message