On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 04:50 +1030, Tim wrote: > > 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! > > That's still an extraordinary long time, I'd expect a few seconds at > the > most. That sounds like nothing provides an answer for the current > addresses (DNS nor the hosts file). > Primary and secondary DNS are set in Network Configuration and whois says they belong to my ISP. -- Regards Simon