Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:36:16 +0530 (IST) From: "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sendmail hangs while booting... Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005031033570.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com> In-Reply-To: <390F1276.8174F3BE@cybercable.fr>
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HI, Thanks for the reply. Please see my comments below: On Tue, 2 May 2000, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > "G.B.Naidu" wrote: > > Some times the sendmail daemon hangs while booting. The kernel files that > > I have changed are: if_ethersubr.c, ip_output.c, rtsock.c > > Generally, sendmail is a bit slow to boot, as it tries to resolve the > hostname of your machine via dns : if your hostname is not declared in a > DNS, sendmail has to wait the timeout duration before finishing its > startup. What I would like to know is: During it's initilization, does sendmail sends/receive some packets? If there are any bugs in the code that I have changed(in the files mentioned above), does they affect sendmail? thanks --gb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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