FreeBSD 11 - My unqualified host name (<hostname>) unknown; sleeping for retry
Symptoms - Slow booting - Some/All of the following messages during boot - Some/All of the following messages in /var/log/messages - Some/All of the following messages in /var/log/maillog Starting sendmail_submit. <date/time> <hostname> sm-mta[615]: My unqualified host name (<hostname>) unknown; sleeping for retry <date/time> <hostname> sm-mta[615]: unable to qualify my own domain name (<hostname>) -- using short name Starting sendmail_msp_queue. <date/time> <hostname> sm-mta[615]: My unqualified host name (<hostname>) unknown; sleeping for retry <date/time> <hostname> sm-mta[615]: unable to qualify my own domain name (<hostname>) -- using short name Issue In my case, during installation I neglected to use a FQDN when it asked me for a hostname, as was expected . This caused sendmail_submit and sendmail_msp_queue to do error correction during boot which increased boot time and produced the messages abov...