Re: sendmail pausing

[Paul Tomblin <ptomblin xcski com>]

Quoting Paul Mezzanini (pfm5567@ritvax.isc.rit.edu):
> Hi all,  I recently came back from college where my multia was on ethernet.
>  I got back home and tried changing from 129.21.113.50 (with a gateway @
> 129.21.113.126) to the local ip 192.168.0.2 (with no gateway).  
> 
> Now when its booting up and starting the sendmail deamon it pauses for
> about 1min 30s (give or take).  To make it even stranger, I can ping it
> from one of my NT machines just fine, but when i try and telnet or ftp, it
> just connects and sits there with no prompt (I assume its the same kind of
> timeout as sendmail, I just haven't waited long enough to check if it is :)  
> 
> I'm running the 2.1.98 kernel.
> 
> any ideas?

Sounds like it might be a DNS timeout.

Check your name server setup.  Especially, make sure that you have your
current host (and any other hosts that you specify in your sendmail.cf, like
smart hosts and relay hosts) specified in /etc/hosts, and you have
/etc/host.conf set up to search your /etc/hosts file first (using "order
hosts,bind").

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