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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: "Chia" <res2211@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: HELP! Stupid Email Question? Date: 25 Oct 1996 03:13:35 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 34 Message-ID: <01bbc221$ffd55160$9368d9ce@#res2211> NNTP-Posting-Host: als-il5-19.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Thu Oct 24 8:13:35 PM PDT 1996 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 This is probably a really stupid question but here goes anyway. Lets say for the purpose of the argument that on network 172.15.57.xxx there are two servers. 172.16.57.100 AKA srv1.company.com and 172.16.57.200 AKA srv2.company.com They are the only two machines on this network, and they both have their own users. They wish to share nothing except the ethernet they have in common. There is no DNS or BIND running, only hosts file. Both machines are aware of each other via their respective hosts file. The Question: If jsmoe@srv1.company.com addresses a message to adweeb@srv2.company.com, how will each server's mailer deal with the message. Will srv1 realize that the user adweeb is on the other server (since he is not a user on srv1) and forward the message to srv2's mailer? Or will srv1's mailer just do nothing with the message? Remember there is no DNS or BIND running, only the hosts file on each machine. Please respond via email ASAP if you can answer this one. And for the record, no I'm not trying to do this, but I'm trying to help somebody who actually wants to. :( Thanks