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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Be cautious about declaring yourself a gateway if on Internet
Summary: wso (.stanford.edu) only has 1 incomming UUCP mail path.
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Date: 21 Sep 88 21:24:34 GMT
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In article <2488@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
>Sites using the pathalias data generate horrible paths to Stanford
>University, among other places.  The reason is that Stanford is on the
>Internet, but one poorly-connected Stanford site is listed as the only
>gateway to .stanford.edu in the UUCP map data.  Here is their entry:
>wso	.stanford.edu
>wso=	wso.stanford.edu
>wso	mtxinu(DIRECT), ncar(DEMAND), noao(DEMAND)

What's the matter?  You don't like sending mail to Stanford via Colorado
and Arizona? :-)

Actually it is worse than that pathalias data would indicate.  It is
only used for paths FROM wso to those sites.  (Otherwise your mail would
have been sent via mtxinu.)  Paths going to wso must use the noao-wso
link because it is the ONLY link to wso listed in the maps.

So, in this case, badly connected means just one (1) incomming
connection.  If they had a few more connections or even if mtxinu would
show their return "DIRECT" connection then it wouldn't be so bad.

					Jerry Aguirre