FC6: slooow sendmail start after changing /etc/hosts

[bill perkins]

Rainer Traut wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a problem which I see since a couple of fedora releases.
> After fixing the /etc/hosts file sendmail starts very slow.
> I usually took the easy way and deinstalled sendmail for postfix...
> 
> The sendmail init script runs newaliases and then sendmail, both tasks 
> start very slowly.
> 
> I did was fixing the faulty hosts file:
> 
> wrong:
> 127.0.0.1    zico    localhost localhost.localdomain
> 
> fixed:
> 127.0.0.1    localhost localhost.localdomain
> 172.27.0.101    zico
> 
> Vie tethereal -i lo I noticed the starting sendmail tries to lookup my 
> hostname 'zico' from dns (running bind locally) but fails and seems to 
> pause then.
> 
> I looked for any references in /etc/mail but there is no 'zico'.
> 
> So the question is, how to fix this?
> 
> Thx
> Rainer
> 
> 
> 
> 
maybe check /etc/resolv.conf; should say
order hosts,bind

this way it will look at the hosts file before resorting to your local 
nameserver.


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