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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
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Date: 28 Sep 88 15:42:57 GMT
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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
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