Re: sendmail pausing

[Christian Lefevre <Christian Lefevre sophia inria fr>]

> 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?
> 

Well, I d say you ll have to look at your dns configuration, maybe 
you re trying to resolve addresses with a dns server you can t reach, 
or what I d suspect even more is that you were using nis on the 
ethernet, and you don t at home, so you may have to change your /etc/
nsswitch (or something like that), else it s certainly searching for 
a nis server which it can t find... And if I remember well RH5.0 put 
the nis first in the lookup order for most things.
Hope it helps.