sendmail slow startup

germano-silva · 09-01-2004, 08:38 PM

I have three Linux servers running RHEL 3 and for some strange reason, when each of the servers come up, sedmail takes a long time to startup.

Any ideas why?

Thanks

chort · 09-02-2004, 02:21 PM

You probably don't have a host-to-IP mapping for any of those hosts in either /etc/hosts or in DNS. It sounds like it's failing to resolve it's hostname-to-IP.

germano-silva · 09-03-2004, 09:19 AM

I do have an entry in the /etc/hosts file in the following format:
id_address host_name

but the host_name is not the fully qualified name as host_name.domain_name

do I need to have an entry that matches the fully qualified dns name?