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Date:      Wed, 3 May 2000 10:36:16 +0530 (IST)
From:      "G.B.Naidu" <gbnaidu@sasi.com>
To:        Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail hangs while booting...
Message-ID:  <Pine.GHP.4.10.10005031033570.23210-100000@hpd14.sasi.com>
In-Reply-To: <390F1276.8174F3BE@cybercable.fr>

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HI,

Thanks for the reply. Please see my comments below:

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Thierry Herbelot wrote:

> "G.B.Naidu" wrote:
> > Some times the sendmail daemon hangs while booting. The kernel files that
> > I have changed are: if_ethersubr.c, ip_output.c, rtsock.c
> 
> 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?

thanks
--gb



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