sendmail startup slow

[Gerry Doris]

Daniel Carrillo wrote:
> 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.
> 

I believe you need the FQDN and the base hostname.  Check out the 
following site

http://www.unixguide.net/linux/faq/07.08.shtml

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