Bug#376136: exim4: Long delay at boot when iface is unplugged

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Fri Jun 30 14:38:22 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 05:25:00PM +0300, michaelm wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:21:32PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 03:47:13PM +0300, michaelm wrote:
> > > There's a noticeable delay (about a minute or a bit less) for starting
> > > exim at boot when the eth0 here is not connected to a switch. If it's
> > > plugged, it normally starts immediately.
> > 
> > Sounds like DNS issue. Does your system know how to find out the host
> > name from its IP address without refering to the external DNS?
> 
> It seems it tries to resolve the hostname into an ip without looking into
> /etc/hosts,

Please show your /etc/hosts and your /etc/nsswitch.conf. I have never
seen exim ignore /etc/hosts.

Greetings
Marc

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