On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:53 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 23:09 +1100, Simon Slater wrote: > > /usr/share/doc/yp-tools-2.9/nsswitch.conf has the line > > hosts: nis files dns > If you don't use nis, then it shouldn't be in there. > > If you do use nis, but it doesn't provide answers for these queries, > then you don't want it listed first. > > That line lists the order of what protocols to try to resolve a name. > It'll try the first, and wait for it to answer, or time out, before > trying the next. > Thanks Tim, I don't use nis so removed that from the quoted line. It only took sendmail 2 minutes and sm-client 1 minute this time. Much better! -- Regards Simon
