sendmail startup slow

[Daniel Carrillo]

Marty Landman wrote:

> 
> How do I do that Gerry? My /etc/hosts file seems ok. Resolv.conf lists 
> my ISP's nameservers. What can I do to pin this down?

Hello.

Is the domain that sendmail resolves a fully qualified domain ?. In 
example if your IP is 192.168.1.1 the /etc/hosts must be:

192.168.1.1 machine.domain.com

or

192.168.1.1 machine.localhost.localdomain

Cheers.