Long time - sendmail on boot

[Jeff Penn]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 06:36:32PM -0700, vizion communication wrote:
> Still same problem
> 
> Proper entries were in /etc/hosts
> 
> > On Saturday, May 10, 2003, at 04:15  PM, vizion communication wrote:
> > >
> > > On booting system takes for ever before on ntpdate (followed by
> > > portmap) and sendmail (followed by sendmail-clientmailqueue)
> > >
> > > The system is also the dnsserver for this network so I am 
> > > wondering if that could have anything to do with it.
> >
> > This usually happens when your DNS is broken, i.e., your machine is
> > named something that doesn't exist.

I had the same problem with bind & sendmail on a dialup workstation (no
network card).  I eventually solved the problem by removing 'options
INET6' from my kernel.

Jeff