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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: System VERY SLOW
Date: 12 Nov 1995 23:52:53 +0100
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Eli Lazich  <elazich@mcs.com> wrote:
>I just changed /etc/sysconfig to make an IP address change (I'm using a 
>different network number).  Now when I boot my system, it takes a couple of 
>minutes after it says that it's loading sendmail to come up to the login 
>prompt.  After I login it takes a few minutes again to run Pine.

DNS setup problem.  Your configuration attempts to ask the nameserver,
but eventually times out and resorts to using /etc/hosts.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)