[CentOS] Hanging @ Sendmail During Boot

Tue May 2 10:29:08 UTC 2006
Mark Sargent <powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp>

Paul Schoonderwoerd wrote:

>Try putting an entry for home-hehbbzsuy7 with the ip-address in /etc/hosts. 
>Possibly also add the Fully Qualified Domain Name (fqdn) in there, something 
>like 
>192.168.1.5 home-hehbbzsuy7.snow.email.ne.jp home-hehbbzsuy7
>  
>
This is a local machine and there is no actual registered domain name, 
only localhost.localdomain. I also should add, that I was not trying to 
get sendmail to run at all, as I'm not using it. With the IP being 
dynamic, how would adding a static IP entry in /etc/hosts help?

>Is the dns-server really reachable on/via 10.0.0.138 ?
>
yes, as it is the DSL router which acts as both Gateway and DHCP server 
as well as DNS

> Try 'dig ns.nl.net' and 
>see if it resolves to 193.78.240.1. Check the last four lines of the output 
>of this command for te query-time and the server which was queried.
>  
>
[ozboy at mumpc ~]$ dig ns.nl.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> ns.nl.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3406
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns.nl.net.                     IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.nl.net.              32324   IN      A       193.78.240.1

;; Query time: 29 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.138#53(10.0.0.138)
;; WHEN: Tue May  2 20:15:13 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 43


hostname "name" changed the hostname,

[root at home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]# hostname mumpc
[root at home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]# hostname
mumpc

 but it returned to original,

[ozboy at home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]$ hostname
home-hehbbzsuy7

 upon reboot. How is this changed permanently? Cheers.

Mark Sargent