Logwatch report on another machine?

[Timothy Murphy]

Dave Burns wrote:

>> I realize that these names are not known to the real world.
>> But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email
>> from one machine on a LAN to another
> 
> I can think of four ways, there could be more:
> * use 'real' DNS
> * make your own DNS server locally
> * put name in /etc/hosts
> * use raw IP number
> 
> /etc/hosts is easy, but will break whenever the IP numbers change.

All the names of local machines appear in /etc/hosts in all machines
with fully qualified names, and their (local) IP addresses never change:
        192.168.2.1     alfred  alfred.gayleard.com
        192.168.2.2     helen   helen.gayleard.com


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