From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 30 22:33:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA03283 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:33:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03277 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:33:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA00423; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:33:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 22:33:28 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney X-Sender: jmg@nike Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Jay Lixfeld cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: caching nameserver problems... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Jay Lixfeld wrote: > Well, if you look below, you will see my /etc/host.conf file: > > # $Id: host.conf,v 1.2 1993/11/07 01:02:57 wollman Exp $ > # Default is to use the nameserver first > # bind > hosts > # If that doesn't work, then try the /etc/hosts file > # hosts > bind > # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line > # nis > > It originally said bind before hosts. I changed it as per the person who > told me about caching nameservers. It is setup correctly.. here is > the lines in my /etc/rc that cause the system to lag.. it looks as tho > sendmail is screwing things up. I thing that it is trying to send mail > somewhere, but can't because the network connection is not made yet > because it is dialup!: > > This is the first place it hangs.. > > # Recover vi editor files. > virecovery=`echo /var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.*` > if [ "$virecovery" != '/var/tmp/vi.recover/recover.*' ]; then > echo 'Recovering vi editor sessions' > for i in $virecovery; do > sendmail -t < $i > done > fi > > After 5 minutes or so, it moves on to the second hanging point which is: > > # $sendmail_flags is imported from /etc/sysconfig; > # if $sendmail_flags is something other than NO, sendmail is run. > if [ "X${sendmail_flags}" != X"NO" -a -r /etc/sendmail.cf ]; then > echo -n ' sendmail'; /usr/sbin/sendmail > ${sendmail_flags} > fi > > As you can see, sendmail is in both those lines. I beleive it is > sendmail, but I have no idea how to fix it! make sure that the results of hostname is listed in /etc/hosts... hope this fixes it... ttyl... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)