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From: nomad@verdix.com (Lee Damon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Query about registering an Internet only site.
Message-ID: <127@verdix.verdix.com>
Date: 28 Nov 88 18:24:20 GMT
References: <1456@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <152@logicon.arpa> <1719@edison.GE.COM> <1296@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu>
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In article <1296@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>In article <1719@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.GE.COM (rja) 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"?
>
>I echo Bob Sloane's (sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) earlier posting: where can I
>find more extensive documentation on the format of a map entry?  The README
>file that is periodically posted to comp.mail.maps doesn't cover this.
>

One place that I look for this information is in the maps itself. A good
many of the maps in d.* have that kind of routing information in them. Now
I know that not everyone does things the same way, but if you find several
maps in the d.whatever file for your area that should give you a good
start.

To answer your specific question, in the routing part of your map put the
line:
  edison.ge.com	.ukansas.edu
which will tell the smail and other smart-routing sites that edison.ge.com
is a gateway for .ukansas.edu. I don't know if the sendmail-only sites will
be able to use this information, (I know that Pathalias is what really
uses it, but I think sendmail doesn't know to keep going down the tree for
UUCP paths.) If you want to see examples, almost all of the fidonet.org
maps that are out there have gateway lines in them. Look at
castle.fidonet.org for one example, or cs.orst.edu (orstcs) for another
(both are in u.usa.or.1).

Hope this helps.

nomad
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