Sendmail takes ages to start at bootup

[Tim]

Tim:
>> If you don't use nis, then it shouldn't be in there.

Simon Slater:
> I don't use nis so removed that from the quoted line.  It only took
> sendmail 2 minutes and sm-client 1 minute this time.  Much better!

That's still an extraordinary long time, I'd expect a few seconds at the
most.  That sounds like nothing provides an answer for the current
addresses (DNS nor the hosts file).

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 important to the thread.)

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