Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

[Simon Slater]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:08 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> ? What is "this?"
59.101.171.96
> > from /var/log/messages.
> 
> If you're starting up sendmail on your laptop (or any other computer
> on 
> your LAN), those name servers aren't going to help your sendmail
> match 
> up IP addresses it can see on your computer and their host names.
> That 
> has to be organised on your own LAN; I generally set up bind as that 
> scales well and I can add more computers, temporarily or permanently 
> without any fuss such as fiddling with hosts files.
> 
Thanks John,

	With the few computers I look after (and my place on the learning
curve), I thought keeping it simple and just using entries in /etc/hosts
for each was the way to start.  So sendmail needs more , than that?
When all is set up as needed for family and business then bind would be
needed (along with LDAP, IMAP and web servers) but I have not started
reading on any of them yet.  This is why I like this list, a good
cross-section of Fedora implementations and platforms, with users
ranging fom novice (me) to well seasoned and experienced.

-- 
Regards
Simon