Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ditka!kls
From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Query about registering an Internet only site.
Summary: don't forget the cost on domain gateways
Message-ID: <512@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 88 21:04:19 GMT
References: <1456@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <152@logicon.arpa> <1719@edison.GE.COM> <1296@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> 
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Inaction Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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In article  dpz@dorm.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman) writes:
>> How do I do this?  That is, exactly what line(s) do I add to my map entry
>> to show that we will serve as a gateway for mail to "ukans.edu"?
>
>ksuvax1		.ukans.edu

As has been discussed here recently, you should also include a cost
on domain gateways, though many (most?) in the maps do not.  This
case should probably be something like

    ksuvax1	.ukans.edu(LOCAL)

Without a cost, it defaults to 4000, which is nearly DAILY.  Probably
not what is intended.

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