Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

[Tim]

Tim:
>> 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).
 

Simon Slater:
> Primary and secondary DNS are set in Network Configuration and whois
> says they belong to my ISP.

Your resolver has to be able to resolve the mail server's domain name.
If your ISP's DNS server doesn't know anything about your servers, it's
not going to be of any help.

I think it needs to answer *both* forward and reverse queries.

i.e. What's the IP for the domain name (forward)
     & what's the domain name for the same IP (reverse).

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