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Date:      Mon, 23 Oct 2000 09:37:48 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Devon Young <foreignshores@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HELP
Message-ID:  <20001023093748.C317@gray.westgate.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20001023062046.5347.qmail@web4705.mail.yahoo.com>; from foreignshores@yahoo.com on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:20:46PM -0700
References:  <20001023062046.5347.qmail@web4705.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 11:20:46PM -0700, Devon Young wrote:
> I can't connect to any news groups or anything, so this is the only
> address I figure I could get some help from. I successfully installed
> FreeBSD on my laptop, BUT, when it boots up, it freezes when it starts
> up the sendmail daemon.  Is there a way to avoid this? I'm familiar
> with Linux, but I'm new to BSD. Please help. I'm desperate.

This is usually a problem with your DNS setup.  If sendmail cannot find
your hostname, it will try to resolve it through DNS and timeout after a
few seconds.  The solution is to fix your DNS setup ;-)

- giorgos


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