> 
> you're getting the dns timeout because you're off-line.  when you're
> off-line, sendmail can't look up (or verify) the existence of the
> address to which (or from which) you are sending the mail, so it stays
> in the client queue.  when you go back on-line, then the dns lookups
> can work again, so the queue can be flushed.
> 
> this is perfectly normal behavior.

So, you need DNS working even for the local mail delivery from cron to
root? Doesn't seem to be good.

Bye	Pavel