Re: starting exim4 takes ages
Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> writes:
> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to
>> start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has
>> started.
>
> Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding. exim4
> does quite some DNS lookups during startup and if name resolution is not
> possible, you get the behavior you are seeing.
The network is up and the name server is responding. I could enable the
client log for the name server to see what's going on, perhaps that
gives some useful information ...
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