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From: cacsc143%mx@csun.edu
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Subject: Re: .uucp going to other than %s
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Date: 27 Sep 88 04:19:49 GMT
References: <315@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> <5616@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <5619@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> <703@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
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In article <703@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
>In article <5619@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> wisner@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Bill Wisner) writes:
>>>Several gateways to .UUCP are defined in the maps, including
>>>rutgers and uunet. So what?

>>So defining those gateways is not necessary.

>so don't include those maps when you build your pathalias database.
>I think they're all in d.Top or what-have-you.  Every site should
>probably write their own d.Top file to fit local knowlege of the
>world - in many cases it would just be as simple to punt all of 
>the official top-level USA domains to your nearest NSFnet gateway,
>and all of the official top-level non-USA domains to your nearest
>international gateway, probably uunet.


I would not recomend the above solution.  The proper thing to do is to let
pathalias know that you think that you are a better .uucp gateway (I know
that is the wrong word.) than rutgers, or uunet.  All you have to do is
put a:

mysite	.uucp(0)

into your LOCAL map entry before you run pathalias.  And you will get a
zero cost (can anyone beat this?) connection to .uucp, everyone elses
should be >0.

Note: I said local map entry.

							Mike Stump