Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:1917 news.sysadmin:983 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!emv From: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Be cautious about declaring yourself a gateway if on Internet Message-ID: <697@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> Date: 21 Sep 88 21:58:13 GMT References: <2488@epimass.EPI.COM> <29499@oliveb.olivetti.com> Sender: usenet@mailrus.cc.umich.edu Reply-To: emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Distribution: na Organization: University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor Lines: 22 In article <29499@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes: >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 >What's the matter? You don't like sending mail to Stanford via Colorado >and Arizona? :-) 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. .gov, .mil, and .net should be handled similarly. .com might be best left in the maps depending on the local density of .com sites not directly on the internet. I'm collecting pathalias post-processor filters - mail them to emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu and I'll summarize and re-post. --Ed