Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:55:37 GMT From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sendmail does bogus name lookups Message-ID: <21025.200102060155@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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I have a problem with sendmail hanging at boot time if my home network
is not connected to the outside world. I have a machine with a modem
("a.nonet") which is running but not dialled up, and another machine
("b.nonet") which I am booting. a is DNS master for the nonet domain,
b is a slave for it and forwards everything else to a.
b's resolv.conf contains a search path
nonet a.b.c x.y.z
When b's sendmail starts, it sends requests to a for b.nonet.a.b.c,
and b.nonet.x.y.z, which hang if a is not dialled up. Why is sendmail
trying to resolve these addresses, when b.nonet exists? How do
I prevent this?
I think this problem started in FreeBSD 4.1.1, but I'm not certain of
that.
-- Richard
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