Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 11:22:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian <asura@xs3.dyn.ml.org>, Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>, Stephane Raimbault <segr@segr.ml.org> Subject: Re: Sendmail...slow boot... Message-ID: <XFMail.980522112230.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980521155804.00a82b90@midwest.net>
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On 21-May-98 Jonathan E. Lyons wrote: > You could also change the order from "bind then hosts" to "hosts then bind" > in resolv.conf. This is done in /etc/host.conf Malte > > Then be sure to tell sendmail to look at the host file(sendmail.cf?) and edit > /etc/hosts. > > > ># default character set > >#O DefaultCharSet=iso-8859-1 > > ># service switch file (ignored on Solaris, Ultrix, OSF/1, others) > >#O ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/service.switch > > ># hosts file (normally /etc/hosts) > > O HostsFile=/etc/hosts > > ># dialup line delay on connection failure > >#O DialDelay=10s > > > > > At 09:31 AM 5/21/98 +0000, Stephane Raimbault wrote: > >>Check your nameservers (/etc/resolv.conf) recently my ISP changed my DNS > >>numbers without letting me know. The symptoms were, incredibly long boot > >>times with sendmail seeming to hang. Long time before I would get a > >>telnet prompt from remote location. Pine seem to be freezing on me it was > >>so slow. > >> > >>Hope this helps, > >>Stephane R. > >> > >>On Thu, 21 May 1998, Studded wrote: > >> > >>> Brian wrote: > >>> > > >>> > I may have not correctly posted my last question, so I ask again. > >>> > I remember reading somewhere that some things cause the system to > >>> > take longer to boot...ie: sendmail takes a long time to load, etc. > >>> > >>> It looks to me like you're trying to start things that require a > >>> network connection before you have one established. > >>> > >>> Doug > >>> > >>> -- > >>> *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > >>> *** Proud designer and maintainer of one of the world's largest > >>> *** Internet Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections > >>> *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) > >>> > >>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >>> > >> > >> > >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >> > >> > > > > > <smaller>The beer is too cold, the daiquiris too fruitful, there's no > place like home! > > Jimmy Buffett "The weather is here, Wish you were beautiful" > > > Jon Lyons > > parrothd@midwest.net > > 87 HONDA VFR700 > > http://cplkagan.dyn.ml.org/</smaller>; > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> Date: 22-May-98 Time: 10:26:27 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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