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Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:04:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Nick Esborn <nick@capella.grayphics.com>
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Subject: Re: Sendmail freezing problem
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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Nick Esborn wrote:
> I am having a rather odd problem with sendmail 8.3.3 on my 2.1.5-R server.
> It takes forever to do anything.  On any invocation of sendmail, it
> freezes for up to several minutes.  It does eventually complete whatever
> task it is executing, but the delay is painful at best.

Usually a symptom of a misconfigured/non-functional DNS

Are you running your own DNS or using /etc/hosts?
Did sendmail used to work and suddenly quit?

Dan
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