Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: news.newsites
Subject: Re: new site aleytys.UU.NET
Message-ID: <527@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 12:19:04 GMT
References: <159@aleytys.UU.NET> <130@skep2.ATT.COM> <131@skep2.ATT.COM>
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <131@skep2.ATT.COM>, wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.) writes:
> In article <159@aleytys.UU.NET> mike@aleytys.UU.NET (Michael Kent) writes:
>
> > # uunet is a pay service: DO NOT route mail thru it and aleytys
> > # unless the destination is aleytys.
> > aleytys uflorida(DAILY/4), medman(DAILY/2), uunet(DAILY)
>
> Remember that most people only read the map files when there's trouble;
> usually they just feed it to pathalias and maybe tune their local area.
> The way to keep people from using aleytys <-> uunet is to give it a high
> price, such as WEEKLY - nobody will use it unless they're really
> trying to reach you. For your *own* pathalias map generation, use DAILY, so
> you'll get the right costs.
There is a much better way of doing this and I would only resort to
fudged link costs if uunet wouldn't change it's map for you.
The correct way of handling this is to have uunet put aleytys
into it's map thusly (is that a word?):
uunet (DAILY)
Which tells pathalias only to use the uunet <-> aleytys link when
aleytys is the final destination. uunet already does this for a number
of sites.
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