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Re: sendmail woes



On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, mulix wrote:

> Upon startup, sendmail pauses for a lengthy period of time, due to (I
> think) failes DNS lookups. I remember once seeing a solution to this
> problem, but after extensive RTFMing in the last hours, I can't find it.
> Any pointers appreciated...
> 
> (I have the following lines in my /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 	localdomain 	localhost.localdomain
> 127.0.0.1	alhambra	
> }

Please do not define /etc/hosts like this. 

Install has it as: 

127.0.0.1	localdomain localhost.localdomain alhambra

I don't like that either, but it works.

--Ariel
> 
> Any help will be appreciated!
> -- 
> mulix.
> email: mulix@ibm.net
> 
> linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead
> 
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