Dnia 11.07.2023 o godz. 16:14:17 Grant Taylor via mailop pisze: > - IBM configures their email servers to send all @lotus.example > email to lotusmail which resolves via /etc/hosts to 192.0.2.1 > - Lotus configures their email servers to send all @ibm.example > email to ibmmail which resolves via /etc/hosts to 198.51.100.5 > > Ergo IBM and Lotus can exchange @ibm.example and @lotus.example > email with each other without the use of DNS. > > This would most likely be done in a business-to-business partner > type configuration where companies wanted to make sure that such B2B > communication did NOT traverse the public Internet. > > Presuming of course that IBM and Lotus had some sort of private > connection and routing between each other.
Hm... does this smell a bit X.400 or is it only my impression? -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop