From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 9:51: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com (smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.1.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A9237B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:51:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from meconlen@obfuscated.net) Received: from clarity (24129168hfc216.tampabay.rr.com [24.129.168.216]) by smtp-server1.tampabay.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f2BGLs024553; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:21:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael Conlen" To: "Forrest" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Why during boot does sendmail take so long? Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:16:21 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 In-reply-to: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would say that DNS would be it. Sendmail is usually pretty quick. Does it know it's hostname, or is the hostname it thinks it is in DNS? If not you can probably speed things up by putting it in the /etc/hosts file. Sendmail should not take three minutes to start up. -- Groove On Dude Michael Conlen Obfuscated Networking meconlen@obfuscated.net > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Forrest > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 1:57 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Why during boot does sendmail take so long? > > > Hi all, > Is the reason that sendamil takes so long on bootup because of DNS issues > > Starting standard daemons: sendmail [waits 3 minutes] > > Could I get faster bootup with a different mail server? > > -- Forrest > > > 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