Dave Burns 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.
All the names of local machines appear in /etc/hosts in all machines
with fully qualified names, and their (local) IP addresses never change:
192.168.2.1 alfred alfred.gayleard.com
192.168.2.2 helen helen.gayleard.com
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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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