From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 23 4:17:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from keyser.soze.com (keyser.soze.com [194.165.93.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8BB37B405 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 04:17:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from erg.verweg.com ([132.229.90.89]) by keyser.soze.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA29964; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:12:39 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ruben@localhost) by erg.verweg.com (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3) id NAA17574; Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:17:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:16:59 +0100 From: Ruben van Staveren To: Scott Lambert Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail does not start if no dns is available Message-ID: <20011223131659.A17339@erg.verweg.com> References: <20011222203454.A4867@klamath.local> <20011222202529.GC22180@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011222202529.GC22180@laptop.lambertfam.org>; from lambert@lambertfam.org on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 03:25:29PM -0500 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 On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 03:25:29PM -0500, Scott Lambert wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:34:54PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote: > > Hi there > > > > I'm not sure about this message belongs to this list... though here it goes: > > When my DNS is down, sendmail takes a long time to start. How can I solve > > this? > > perhaps by adding your hostname to /etc/hosts. > And any local ipv4/ipv6 interface you might have configured, see ifconfig -au for that. sendmail -bt -d0.11 < /dev/null also helps in showing sendmails current idea of its canonical names. Regards, Ruben -- ,-_ .----------------------------------------------------------------. /() ) | Ruben van Staveren http://ruben.is.verweg.com/ |_o (__ ( |Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell| #> =/ () `----------------------------------------------------------------' 4 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message