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From: Dorota Nicewicz-Modrzewska
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 00:00

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Thanks to Scotty Logan, who wrote following to me:

> > I've just compiled sendmail.8.6.12 program. Here is, what I
> > found in sources about using IDENT protocol on Ultrix
> > system. I've turned on this option and sendmail work fine. I
> > have Ultrix 4.4 version. Does anobody know, can I use this, or
> > is it incorrect? What is this UDP problem?
> 
> Yes, IDENT does work on Ultrix 4.4. The problem was in the IP code
> in Ultrix versions prior to 4.4 (there was  a patch for 4.3A).  If
> I remember correctly, if a program tried to do  an ident lookup on
> a remote host which wasn't running an ident daemon then the Ultrix
> network code would consider the remote host unreachable.
> 

Dorota Nicewicz-Modrzewska
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  Dorota Nicewicz-Modrzewska    Adam Mickiewicz University 
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