wouldn't it be wiser to just add the hosts that it needs to lookup to your /etc/hosts file? That'd be my first course of action...
That way you don't have hard coded ip's in all of your configs either. -cyn ----- This email has been sent as a single line of query, and in no way indicates the senders interest in or acceptance of any promotions or "opt-in"'s unless otherwise EXPRESSLY noted. On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/11/2002 (16:57) : > > > From: "Preben Randhol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > That's two questions. I have exim running on mine and I haven't > > > noticed a delay at startup when I'm not on the network, so I'm pretty > > > sure you can avoid that. > > > > But you are not running it as a daemon you are using inetd I bet. > > No. It runs from /etc/rc2.d/S20exim > > I'm betting you need to change some of your local addresses in exim.conf from > domain names to IPs. > > Every config option that requires it to check a domain name at startup time is > going to do a DNS lookup. In particular, I set "local_domains" and > "host_accept_relay" to use the usual IPs for the laptop (note, you really may > need to rewrite those depending on the network you're attached to). I changed > one of these specifically because of hearing about this situation - I think it > was "host_accept_relay". > -- > derek > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
