Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1983 news.sysadmin:1006 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bloom-beacon!husc6!yale!bunker!stpstn!aad From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Be cautious about declaring yourself a gateway if on Internet Message-ID: <2140@stpstn.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 23:24:25 GMT References: <2488@epimass.EPI.COM> <29499@oliveb.olivetti.com> <697@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) Distribution: na Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT Lines: 21 >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? -- @disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my employer, my GIGI, or my 11/34) beak is beak is not Anthony A. Datri,SysAdmin,StepstoneCorporation,stpstn!aad