What hostname do you use on your computer?
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Thu Nov 30 01:39:34 UTC 2006
Knute Johnson wrote:
> So now sendmail hangs on startup for about 2 minutes. There must be
> something else to set?
>
> Thanks,
>
> knute...
>
> [knute at knute ~]$ hostname
> knute
>
> [knute at knute ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> ::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.3.5 knute
>
> [knute at knute ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
> HOSTNAME=knute
> [knute at knute ~]$
Make sure /etc/host.conf is set to "order hosts,bind". If it is set to
"order bind,hosts", the system still tries to use bind to resolve the
hostname.
Cheers,
Dave
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