mailing to le1 on sun workstation
The Grey Wolf
greywolf at unisoft.UUCP
Tue Mar 5 11:37:39 AEST 1991
<1991Feb28.194930.22580 at mp.cs.niu.edu> by rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
# In article <1318 at pivot.sbi.com> art at pivot.sbi.com (Art Bernstein) writes:
# >
# >I have a system with two ethernet addresses le0 (prod_sys) le1 (test_sys).
# >When mail is sent to test_sys (le1) an error is returned. The system wants
#
# That's what you get when you use two different names for the same system.
# (This is generally a bad practice).
That's what you have to do when you have a machine with two (or more)
ethernet boards in it.
This is generally not avoidable unless you want to muck about with multiple
sendmail.cf files and /etc/hosts files and...well, you get the idea.
It's a lot easier to try and set up a machine with two (or more) names
than it is to manipulate different config files and try and maintain a
distribution list. The first one you only have to do once.
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# Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
# Northern Illinois Univ.
# DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
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