Tom Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup
> modem. Naive question:
> Is it OK to give our network/server any old domain name? To the
> outside world we will be the domain set by our ISP, but can I set the
> domain in our LAN to something like smith.jones?
It may work, it may not.
A lot depends upon how you set up your mail.
If you try to send mail to your ISP from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and your
isp is jones.smith, then your isp will most likely deny you the
relay that it thinks you are asking for when you try to send email
to anyone outside the jones.smith (and possibly smith.jones) domain(s).
If, however, you send email directly from your smith.jones side then
you might (should?) be ok. (But beware - strange things may happen on
INCOMING email ;-)
I had a setup like that for a while - I was descomp.phx.inficad.com
AND descomp.com for a long time, and it worked fine as long as I
sent email directly out from my descomp.com domain (i.e. I ran
postfix on descomp.com and IT was a 'smart mailer' (in the old
sendmail terminology :-) So it can work fine. It helps if you
set your mailer to accept mail for BOTH domains.....
rc
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