From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 1 17:32:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA29022 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 17:32:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tok.qiv.com ([204.214.141.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29007 for ; Thu, 1 May 1997 17:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id TAA03811; Thu, 1 May 1997 19:30:42 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00909; Thu, 1 May 1997 19:03:18 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 19:03:18 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: Nick Esborn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail freezing problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It sounds a bit like it's hanging on a name lookup. Has anything changed with DNS or your name servers? -- Jay 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. -> ->mailq doesn't reveal anything wrong, although as with sendmail it takes ->several minutes to happen. -> ->I can supply additional information; at this stage I'm just not sure what ->would be useful and what wouldn't be. Any help will of course be greatly ->appreciated. -> ->Thanks, -> ->Nick ->Grayphics ->http://www.grayphics.com/ ->