Re: sendmail pausing

[Larry Zimmerman <laz walleye gonefishing sk ca>]

From: Paul Mezzanini <pfm5567@ritvax.isc.rit.edu> Thu, 28 May 1998
>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

Sounds like a host name lookup problem to me - how is your DNS set up?
Did you change your sendmail config to reflect your changed IP?

Larry Z.