On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Brian Schramm wrote:
> I am using one machine to run Debian 2.1. I do not have a network but I want > bind to handle caching of DNS inquires. I am doing this so I can use the > sendmail genericstable and virtualtable and convert my addresses to the ones I > want to have everyone use for replys. > > My problem is now if I am not connected to the net, everything stops when I > send a message. I have not changed my sendmail configuration yet to vurtual > hosting so I cannot see where that is the problem. > > I installed the bind package with no forwarding so it is in caching setup. > > Thanks for all the help. It also happened to me with qmail-pop3d, although it does not stop only it waits until it timeouts with contacting some other sites which means about 2-3 minutes. These sites are probably the root sites. If you look at the log, you will see a network unreachable line in it, after you connect to sendmail. Try removing the root servers hint from it. Or if it does not help, then set up /etc/hosts on the sendmail site. It might help. The other thing that did help at me, to connect a minute to the network, you can do this even before even trying to send a letter. It did put away the wait at connecting to my qmail-pop3d. Robert Varga
