FC6: slooow sendmail start after changing /etc/hosts
bill perkins
perk at iag.net
Thu Feb 8 00:57:30 UTC 2007
Rainer Traut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is a problem which I see since a couple of fedora releases.
> After fixing the /etc/hosts file sendmail starts very slow.
> I usually took the easy way and deinstalled sendmail for postfix...
>
> The sendmail init script runs newaliases and then sendmail, both tasks
> start very slowly.
>
> I did was fixing the faulty hosts file:
>
> wrong:
> 127.0.0.1 zico localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> fixed:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 172.27.0.101 zico
>
> Vie tethereal -i lo I noticed the starting sendmail tries to lookup my
> hostname 'zico' from dns (running bind locally) but fails and seems to
> pause then.
>
> I looked for any references in /etc/mail but there is no 'zico'.
>
> So the question is, how to fix this?
>
> Thx
> Rainer
>
>
>
>
maybe check /etc/resolv.conf; should say
order hosts,bind
this way it will look at the hosts file before resorting to your local
nameserver.
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