Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:40:07 +0930 From: Brian Astill <bastill@adam.com.au> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail woes Message-ID: <3E9518CF.6090302@adam.com.au> References: <20030404113740.T20523@gothmog> <1049529621.3e8e8d153e24f@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> <20030409234339.GC33664@gothmog.gr> <3E94C288.5070707@adam.com.au> <20030410065818.GA71936@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >>I waited a L O N G time during boot and eventually this sequence occurred: >> >>Starting standard daemons: inetd cron printer sshd usbd sendmail >>sendmail-clientmqueue. >> >>The boot then continued normally to the login prompt. >> > >That's a classic symptom of DNS problems. Your sendmail installation >is probably perfectly good in itself, but sendmail is blocking trying >to resolve the FQDN of the host via the DNS, and it's the DNS that you >need to concentrate on fixing. Note: it's got to be able to use the >DNS to do those lookups, or it won't be much use for the rest of the >internet to communicate with. There should be more information about >exactly what lookups are failing in /var/log/maillog. > Agreed completely - trouble is I can find nothing wrong with /etc/hosts or rc.conf that would explain the problem so I can fix it. Sadly, all was OK until I upgraded from 4.8PR to 4.8RC, which suggests that upgrading is the issue. I will do as you say and look at maillog. Have to reboot into FBSD to do that. Here I go ... Bye! -- Brian
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