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Date:      Sun, 23 Dec 2001 13:16:59 +0100
From:      Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com>
To:        Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail does not start if no dns is available
Message-ID:  <20011223131659.A17339@erg.verweg.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011222202529.GC22180@laptop.lambertfam.org>; from lambert@lambertfam.org on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 03:25:29PM -0500
References:  <20011222203454.A4867@klamath.local> <20011222202529.GC22180@laptop.lambertfam.org>

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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

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