Hi all, Once upon a time Ingo Hohmann spoketh thus: > Hi to all, > > I'm still trying to find out what may make name resolution > and exim startup to slow down to a crawl ... > > (smrgol is my local host, ip: 10.1.1.1) > > If I do a > > ping smrgol > > I get an instant answer, but if I > > telnet smrgol > > it takes about 30s until I'm connected. On the other hand > > telnet 10.1.1.1 > > connects instantly. > > Another problem is exim. It normally is started from inetd, > so I do > > telnet 10.1.1.1 smtp
I've tried all your ideas, but nothing helped, seems there's something more hidden in my system ... (It happens locally, without netconnection, /etc/hosts is there and right, /etc/host.conf, too ... to start exim by hand takes 30 secs, too ...) Thanks again, Ingo