Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> writes: > lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: >> Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> writes: >>> lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > >>>> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to >>>> start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has >>>> started. >>> >>> Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding. >>> exim4 does quite some DNS lookups during startup and if name >>> resolution is not possible, you get the behavior you are seeing. > >> The network is up and the name server is responding. > > Did you test this during the boot sequenze oder after?
During --- I can see the booting wait for exim to finish in the xen console via a ssh session with dom0. If the network wasn't up or the name server not responding, I'd have other problems. Most likely seems some network/DNS issue, even though I don't think so --- I'll turn on DNS querylogging and see what shows up. > Is your network configured statically or via DHCP? If the latter, the > aquisition of an IP might take to long. There's no DHCP on the network; all IPs are static. -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87bnq31ifo....@yun.yagibdah.de
