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From: beckerwj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (William Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Problems with sendmail.
Date: 23 Feb 1995 18:51:03 -0500
Organization: Purdue University
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Hello all..

I'm settting up a LAN in the apartment building I live in.  The question 
is how does one sent up sendmail for just a LAN.  Right now the users can only
send mail locally to each machine.  If you attempt to send to another 
machine, sendmail returns a complaint that it couldn't bind to a nameserver.
About 15-20 seconds later another system error is generated to the console:
tcp/ident failed (looping).  After examining sendmail.cf (not to mention
getting a headache!!!) I am still stumped.  Anyone suggest where to find
more info on this, or a solution?

Reply by mail.  Thanx!