2006/11/14, arnuld <arnuld3@gmail.com>:
> 2.) when i boot up then "sendmail" takes a loooong time to complete
> its boot up operations. [...]

Hi!

I had also the same problem when installing NetBSD. Pings took too
long to respond and sometimes they worked and others didn't. As I
think you've been told already, this is a DNS resolution timeout or
something related.

All of this problems where gone for me when I run named, the daemon
for name-resolution.

/usr/sbin/named

Hope this helps...

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Ricardo Cervera Navarro
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