From owner-freebsd-net Tue May 2 21:55:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from sasi.com (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9BB37BF54 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 21:55:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gbnaidu@sasi.com) Received: from samar (sasi.com [164.164.56.2]) by sasi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA06087; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:25:03 +0530 (IST) Received: from hpd14.sasi.com ([10.0.16.14]) by sasi.com; Wed, 03 May 2000 10:25:02 +0000 (IST) Received: from localhost (gbnaidu@localhost) by hpd14.sasi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA03329; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:36:17 +0530 (IST) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 10:36:16 +0530 (IST) From: "G.B.Naidu" To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sendmail hangs while booting... In-Reply-To: <390F1276.8174F3BE@cybercable.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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