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?
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   Jaroslaw Rafa
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