Xref: utzoo news.admin:3247 news.config:845 Path: utzoo!linus!necntc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu!karl From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.config Subject: Re: AT&T map entry Message-ID: <19679@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 10 Aug 88 18:20:41 GMT References: <313@psuhcx.psu.edu> <10368@ncc.Nexus.CA> <142@obie.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Lines: 31 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