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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: AT&T map entry
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Date: 10 Aug 88 18:20:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: wes@obie.UUCP's message of 8 Aug 88 01:44:35 GMT

wes@obie.UUCP writes:
   While we're on the subject, is site tut.cis.ohio.edu passing ANY mail to
   ANY other sites at all?  Everything I've sent through them lately has
   bounced, to the point where I re-ran pathalias with tut marked as
   'dead.'

The machine tut.cis.ohio-state.edu has never performed UUCP mail
pass-through.  It has only one UUCP neighbor, osu-cis, about six feet
away in the next cabinet with a cable between them.

osu-cis, in turn, has relatively few UUCP neighbors, the primary
non-local ones being pyramid and killer.  We also speak to AT&T, as
one might guess, but since that's not useful for pass-through any
longer, we are marking it (DEAD), or, as Tim Thompson recommended to
us today, with the (DEMAND) syntax, which defines the link as
terminal.

If the reason this concerns you is because you find that a lot of
!-path routed mail gets aimed through Tut and fails, I'm well aware of
it - I see a couple of them every day.  But such things are invariably
due to replies generated to the Path: header of news articles, and
such paths simply don't work - they hit Tut requesting UUCP transfer
to some site with which we connect solely via NNTP, and they will at
best get rerouted via, say, Rutgers.  If they work, you got lucky.  If
they don't, they bounce.  Don't generate replies to Path:.

I have no idea why Tut shows up in pathalias output anyway; our map
entry doesn't even list Tut except as a neighbor of osu-cis, cost
value LOCAL, and in the #U line.

--Karl