Sven Hartge <[email protected]> writes: > lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to >> start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has >> started. > > Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding. exim4 > does quite some DNS lookups during startup and if name resolution is not > possible, you get the behavior you are seeing.
The network is up and the name server is responding. I could enable the client log for the name server to see what's going on, perhaps that gives some useful information ... -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
