Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

[Les Mikesell]

Simon Slater wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 04:50 +1030, Tim wrote:
>>> I don't use nis so removed that from the quoted line.  It only took
>>> sendmail 2 minutes and sm-client 1 minute this time.  Much better!
>> That's still an extraordinary long time, I'd expect a few seconds at
>> the
>> most.  That sounds like nothing provides an answer for the current
>> addresses (DNS nor the hosts file).
>>
> 	Primary and secondary DNS are set in Network Configuration and whois
> says they belong to my ISP.


Will they reverse-resolve the IP address of your interface(s)?  What 
does "nslookup your_IP_address" return?

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   Les Mikesell
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