On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 15:07 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:20, centos at 911networks.com wrote: > > Benjamin Smith wrote: > > > I'd really like to know what this turned out to be... > > > > It was sendmail that would hang during the boot. At that point > > the startup would wait, wait and wait... I do not need sendmail, > > so I disabled it from the startup. > > That means it's really DNS that's broken - and/or you don't > have an entry for localhost in /etc/hosts. Sendmail likes > to be able to resolve names for all of your interfaces so > it knows what mail it should accept and it will try pretty > hard before giving up. My guess is that you had the > caching-nameserver package installed but had local changes > to named.conf that where needed to make DNS work. An update > to caching-nameserver wipes out local changes. ---- I've seen a lot of people completely ignore the stop sign - the top 2 lines of /etc/hosts and hack it away completely and that causes all sorts of issues. My money is on careless edit of /etc/hosts ;-) Craig