Make sure that all the IP addresses your machine binds to resovle to a name, whether it be from the /etc/hosts or a real DNS server.. that will remove the delay's your experiencing

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-----Original Message-----
From: seawolf-list-admin@redhat.com
[mailto:seawolf-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Don Knott
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 4:37 PM
To: Mail List Redhat Linux Seawolf
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5-6 seconds delay

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Josep M. wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> When I try send message ,or make a telnet connection ,sendmail takes
> 5-6 seconds for answer,and later before send message 3-4 seconds of
> delay more,I was looking and many docs seem to be dns problem I don´t
> have DNS service installed in my machine,just use the dns of my
> isp,must i add or change anything?

Your on the right track.. its dns related.

Check /etc/nsswitch.conf for the hosts line. It looks like:

hosts:      files dns

That file controls the order in which names are resolved. Check that its 
not trying to use nis and other services before its falling back to dns.

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