Bug 217749

Summary: sendmail startup is slow (3 minutes) when not on a network
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Orion Poplawski <orion>
Component: sendmailAssignee: Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Orion Poplawski 2006-11-29 19:03:38 UTC 
Description of problem:

Booting my laptop off network, it hangs for 3 minutes starting sendmail.  Log shows:

Nov 28 14:02:39 cynosure sendmail[2176]: My unqualified host name (cynosure)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov 28 14:03:39 cynosure sendmail[2176]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(cynosure) -- using short name
Nov 28 14:03:40 cynosure sendmail[2176]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root
Nov 28 14:03:40 cynosure sendmail[2176]: /etc/aliases: 76 aliases, longest 10
bytes, 765 bytes total
Nov 28 14:03:40 cynosure sendmail[2181]: My unqualified host name (cynosure)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov 28 14:04:40 cynosure sendmail[2181]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(cynosure)-- using short name
Nov 28 14:04:40 cynosure sendmail[2182]: starting daemon (8.13.8):
SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Nov 28 14:04:41 cynosure sm-msp-queue[2190]: My unqualified host name (cynosure)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov 28 14:05:41 cynosure sm-msp-queue[2190]: unable to qualify my own domain
name (cynosure) -- using short name
Nov 28 14:05:41 cynosure sm-msp-queue[2193]: starting daemon (8.13.8):
queueing@01:00:00

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sendmail-8.13.8-2

We use a custom sendmail.mc, but this has been fine before (FC1-5).
Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2006-11-29 19:03:38 UTC 
Created attachment 142408 [details]
custom sendmail.mc
Comment 2 Robert Scheck 2007-04-07 09:08:41 UTC 
And what is the golden option which makes sendmail faster when no network is 
available?
Comment 3 Thomas Woerner 2007-04-10 09:42:22 UTC 
Sendmail is trying to resolve the domain cora.nwra.com, because you configured
it to use it for masquerading. You have to make sure that this domain is
resolvable even if the network is unreachable. I'd suggest to add an entry to
/etc/hosts.