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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!purdue!news.bu.edu!noc.near.net!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!insosf1.infonet.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!giant!a09878 From: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems with sendmail. Date: 24 Feb 1995 08:40:25 GMT Organization: MIND LINK! Communications Corp., Langley, BC, Canada Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3ik61p$3lu@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> References: <3ij717$mb1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: giant.mindlink.net In article <3ij717$mb1@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, William Becker <beckerwj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> wrote: >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. Well, if you're setting up a LAN in your apartment building, you probably will want to set up a nameserver for DNS (domain name services). I'd strongly suggest you buy a copy of O'Reilly's _TCP/IP Network Administration_; this is one of the simplest introductions to getting networks running that you can find that is still reasonably complete. In the meantime, have you tried putting all of your hosts' IP addresses in /etc/hosts, and either removing your /etc/resolv.conf or making sure that you have the line "lookup file" in it? _Man resolv.conf_ for more information. cjs -- Curt Sampson a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca Opinions are mine, Fluor Daniel Wright, Ltd. 604 488 2226 not Fluor Daniel's. 1075 W. Georgia Street Vancouver, B.C., V6E 4M7 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.