[wplug] Redhat 9 Slow starting - sendmail / sm-client

[Eric Peterson]

Er (kick me), what's a loopback host?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Keir Josephson
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:42 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Redhat 9 Slow starting - sendmail / sm-client
> 
> 
> You may also want to avoid having your hostname resolve to 
> the loopback 
> address, altogether. I've seen this cause many strange problems with 
> software that tries to reverse the local host.
> 
> -Keir
> 
> On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:06 AM, Eric Peterson wrote:
> 
> > I read the thread,
> > http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2003-November/008527.html
> >
> > I am having similar problems with sendmail hanging on boot. 
>  The Linux 
> > box
> > (butanone) runs RH9(shrike) and sits behind a router with an XP box
> > (acetone).  The Redhat installation guide simply says in this 
> > situation to
> > make sure /etc/hosts has a line in it that it already does 
> (line 1 as
> > follows)
> >
> > # cat /etc/hosts
> > 127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain   localhost
> > 127.0.0.1        butanone
> > 192.168.1.100    acetone
> > 192.168.1.101    butanone
> > # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> > ; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
> > search charterpipeline.net
> > nameserver 66.215.64.14
> > nameserver 24.205.1.14
> > nameserver 24.205.192.61
> > #
> >
> > Suggestions (I can surely rtfm if someone can point me in the right
> > direction)?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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