My machine is acting as a dhcp server, router and firewall. I have named it "bonsai" The problem is that when sendmail starts, it take forever to startup. I think it is trying to resolve the name. I have place 192.168.100.1 bonsai bonsai into the hosts file. Below is a short list of the contents of my maillog file. Is there a way to correct this? I have a bunch of entries just like this. un 13 07:34:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: My unqualified host name (bonsai) unknown; sleeping for retry Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: unable to qualify my own domain name (bonsai) -- using short name Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: alias database /etc/aliases rebuilt by root Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1841]: /etc/aliases: 63 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 625 bytes total Jun 13 07:35:09 bonsai sendmail[1852]: My unqualified host name (bonsai) unknown; sleeping for retry Jun 13 07:36:09 bonsai sendmail[1852]: unable to qualify my own domain name (bonsai) -- using short name Jun 13 07:36:09 bonsai sendmail[1854]: starting daemon (8.12.8): SMTP+queueing@xx:00:00 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com