Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:2004 news.sysadmin:1009 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf From: wcf@psuhcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Be cautious about declaring yourself a gateway if on Internet Message-ID: <946@psuhcx.psu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 88 15:42:57 GMT References: <2488@epimass.EPI.COM> <29499@oliveb.olivetti.com> <697@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> <2140@stpstn.UUCP> Reply-To: wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) Distribution: na Organization: Penn State University Lines: 25 In article <2140@stpstn.UUCP> aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: |>pathalias data is the wrong source of information for .edu domain |>hosts; the name servers are much more useful and reliable. |>filter out all of the .foo.edu information from your pathalias |>run and just make sure that the .edu gateway you declare is running |>a sendmail with MX records. | |If I'm within a couple hops of a uucp-only .edu domain, sending mail |for it across the net to (for example) uunet and uunet sending it back |seems like a real waste of time and links. It's going to have to go |across uucp links anyway -- why bother the gateway sites with the |traffic and why bother the arpanet with the traffic? | How about this- pathalias checks the cost of a second-level domain path, compares it to the cost of the first-level path. If it's cheaper, then the second-level path is put in the database. If not, it'll put it in the first-level path. If they're equal, it'll put in the second-level path. Bill -- Bitnet: wcf@psuhcx.bitnet Bill Fenner | "Ain't got no cash, Internet: wcf@hcx.psu.edu | Ain't got no style UUCP: {gatech,rutgers}!psuvax1!psuhcx!wcf | Ain't got no girls Fido: Sysop at 263/42 (814/238 9633) \hogbbs!wcf| To make me smile"