On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 09:29 +0100, Rainer Traut wrote: > Vie tethereal -i lo I noticed the starting sendmail tries to lookup my > hostname 'zico' from dns (running bind locally) but fails and seems to > pause then. > > I looked for any references in /etc/mail but there is no 'zico'. > > So the question is, how to fix this? Guess: It's trying to resolve names and IP addresses for the host addresses it listens to. I run a local DNS server for my LAN, it handles all name resolutions rather than hosts files. Though each box with a static address has a hosts file for itself, but none of the other PCs are listed in it. For things like local web or mail serving, it really is the way to go. -- (This PC runs FC4, my others FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.