FC6: slooow sendmail start after changing /etc/hosts

[Tim]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 09:29 +0100, Rainer Traut wrote:
> 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?

Guess:  It's trying to resolve names and IP addresses for the host
addresses it listens to.

I run a local DNS server for my LAN, it handles all name resolutions
rather than hosts files.  Though each box with a static address has a
hosts file for itself, but none of the other PCs are listed in it.  For
things like local web or mail serving, it really is the way to go.

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