networking and sendmail

[Mark Komarinski]

On 05/04/2011 12:39 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> At work I have a number of VMs. When these VMs were configured with
> dynamic IP addresses, they booted very quickly, but now they tend to
> wait on sendmail and sm_client to time out. Everything else is fine. I
> can even ssh into the VM while it is waiting for sendmail. Sendmail is
> not configured.
>
> Why would sendmail (and sm_client) timeout on a static IP but not with a
> dynamic IP.
It's likely DNS.  I don't know how you had it set up before, but did you 
happen to change from NAT to Bridge at the same time as you went to 
static IP addresses?

(grumble about using sendmail in the first place omitted, lest I send 
everyone hurtling off topic)

-Mark