Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!emcard!fedeva!csun!cacsc143%mx From: cacsc143%mx@csun.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: .uucp going to other than %s Message-ID: <1547@csun.edu> 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> Sender: uucp@super.ORG Reply-To: cacsc143@mx.csun.edu (Mike Stump) Organization: California State University, Northridge Lines: 30 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