Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:41:15 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com> Cc: Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sendmail hangs while booting... Message-ID: <20000513154115.X78993@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005031033570.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>; from gbnaidu@sasi.com on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:36:16AM %2B0530 References: <390F1276.8174F3BE@cybercable.fr> <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005031033570.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>
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-On [20000503 07:31], G.B.Naidu (gbnaidu@sasi.com) wrote: >On Tue, 2 May 2000, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > >> Generally, sendmail is a bit slow to boot, as it tries to resolve the >> hostname of your machine via dns : if your hostname is not declared in a >> DNS, sendmail has to wait the timeout duration before finishing its >> startup. > >What I would like to know is: During it's initilization, does sendmail >sends/receive some packets? If there are any bugs in the code that I have >changed(in the files mentioned above), does they affect sendmail? Like Thierry said, it will try and do a lookup by means if gethostbyname() IIRC which could mean the resolver needs to contact a nameserver as specified in /etc/resolv.conf. So it could send out some packets. But that's entirely dependent on your configuration. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; If we do not start at the beginning, we have no hope to arrive... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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