On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:05 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I realize that these names are not known to the real world. > > But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email > > from one machine on a LAN to another > > I can think of four ways, there could be more: > * use 'real' DNS > * make your own DNS server locally > * put name in /etc/hosts > * use raw IP number > > /etc/hosts is easy, but will break whenever the IP numbers change. ---- unless I am missing something here, mail will still not work because it will still query for a MX record for the domain and thus /etc/hosts is not suitable for mail handling Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
